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Patient stories are really important to help staff learn how to improve the care that they deliver and patients have told us that hearing other patients stories can be comforting. The videos and podcasts below offer patients stories regarding care delivered in South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and other organisations.

  • Cancer Diagnosis Story | Lymphoma (Blood Cancer Hindi)
  • Mother Tongue (Urdu): Naveed's Story 
  • What is cancer? (Chinese Hong Kong)

  • "You can get your voice back!" - John's laryngectomy TEP valve story 
  • Speech using a voice prosthesis after a laryngectomy
  • Throat Cancer – Nigel’s Story
  • Throat Cancer – Shaun’s Story

  • Sex and prostate cancer: Martin's story
  • Testicular cancer – Hugo Story 
  • Darren’s Story 

  • Linda’s Story
  • Nicola's Story
  • Cancer Investigations – Jo’s story
  • Julie’s Story
  • Wonderful Wigs – Nicola’s Story
  • Macmillan Support Lesley's Story

  • Thom’s Story 
  • How bowel cancer is staged: Macmillan Cancer Support (British Sign Language)

  • Palliative Cancer – Talking to Children 
  • Gareth’s Story 
  • Mark’s Story Living with a terminal illness
  • Having Palliative Care – Paola’s Story 

  • Men's stories about cancer

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  • Health and Wellbeing
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  • STS Charity
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