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When Lauren had a rare incurable cancer recurrence, she adopted a glass-half-full approach to life with a commitment to living with cancer, not dying with cancer.

As a family we’ve always been really close, and my dad Kenny was my best friend. He made everyone around him feel good and positive, and he had so much love to give to everyone.

After running the Great North Run before her cancer diagnosis, Claire was determined to run it again and fundraise for Maggie's.

In 2019, at the age of 32, Nicola was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer. A really tough time followed, and over the next few months Nicola faced chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments as well as surgery to remove a tumour from her bowel.

In May 2024, after a 3D mammogram and biopsies, Ruth, 58, was diagnosed with Grade 2 Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer in her right breast.

Rita came to Maggie's when she was diagnosed with cancer and needed emotional support and advice about treatment. She's leaving a gift to Maggie's in her will to make sure we can be here for people like her when they need us most.

When I hit my 50s, the GP told me I needed to start coming in for an MOT to check everything’s working alright.

After Rebecca was diagnosed with a hormone sensitive breast cancer, her treatment put her into early crash menopause with sudden and debilitating side effects.

When Colton's wife, Amanda, died a year after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Colton was worried about how to help his teenage daughter, Saffron, as well as grieving himself. Talking to a Maggie's psychologist helped him to feel less overwhelmed.

Primary school teacher Cara was diagnosed with cervical cancer at just 33 years-old. Treatment was gruelling, leaving her with two stoma bags and such terrible sickness. She turned to Maggie's and describes the support as "exactly what I needed".

Sam, 25, was diagnosed with a germinoma brain tumour three years ago. Thankfully, he is now on other side of treatment. He comes to Maggie’s Nottingham for support in processing what he has been through.

Priya, 40, from Nottingham, first came to Maggie’s two years ago when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Maxine, 48, a schoolteacher from Airdrie, was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2024. She came to Maggie’s for support following a referral from her breast cancer nurse.

In April 2018 I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38. You never think it’s going to happen to you. It was shocking, devastating and really frightening.

When Lucy was diagnosed with head and neck cancer, she had to start treatment straight away. After losing her baby, as well as the ability to eat and speak, Lucy started a long journey of recovery.

I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer when I was 30 in November 2023. It’s an aggressive cancer, so we knew right from the start we'd be chucking a lot of treatment at it.

I was diagnosed in 2023 with nasopharyngeal cancer and had to have really extensive treatment. I was hospitalised for three periods to get constant chemo, and then I had 33 sessions of radiotherapy.

Sandy talks about how coming to Maggie's helped changed his focus from not having long to live to how to live well.

My son Zac, 20, from Northampton, was diagnosed with cancer in September 2015, just a week before he was due to return to university.

I'd been feeling a bit tired, so I booked in for blood tests with my GP in November 2022. An abnormality was detected, and it was confirmed a few months later as JAK2 – a rare gene mutation in my blood.