Katrin, Care And Cancer
Katrin is known for providing comfort and care, but even against this background, the Katrin team at Metsä Tissue were faced with a challenge when their external marketing consultant, Denise Nee, announced that she had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
Mark Dewick, Metsä Tissue Sales Director, explained: “The inevitable impact of this diagnosis was that Denise would be off for some time having a mastectomy and possible follow up treatment. Losing an important Katrin resource from a small team has an impact on work, but in the greater scheme of life, her health was clearly the most important.”
Denise was lucky; an early diagnosis and prompt treatment, plus empathy from family, friends and colleagues at Metsä Tissue, all resulted in a quick and full recovery, and it left the Katrin team with a much greater awareness of the disease. The team then discovered that Cathy Campbell, Sales Account Manager at Cherwell, had also been diagnosed with the disease. Further along in the process, Cathy was able to give Denise some advice on reconstruction.
Cathy takes up the story: “As I recovered from a double mastectomy and reconstruction, I learned that breast reconstruction, and other reconstructions, such as burns, are actually a matter of guesswork in terms of how much body tissue is actually required.”
Too late for her own operation, Cathy discovered that there is a machine called a Vectra XT 3D Imaging Scanner, which can map and measure how much tissue is required accurately. However, as with all new technologies, access is currently limited within the NHS, and there are currently only three available. Cathy
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didn’t have access to one, and as a result, she had to undergo further, painful procedures to level out the amount of tissue used.
Nicolas Miedzianowski-Sinclair, Managing Director of Surface Imaging Solutions, and provider of the Vectra XT, said: “Cathy went on to raise an outstanding amount of money, £19,000, on behalf of her local Breast Care Unit at Birmingham City Hospital NHS Trust. In light of this fantastic effort, we agreed to set an initial system price at £25,000 in the first year, instead of £38,500. In addition, we agreed to have the equipment installed immediately, and begin to provide services to benefit Breast Cancer sufferers and burn victims straight away.”
Cathy said: “We just need a small amount more for this machine, but it would be great if we could help fund another mobile device, that could
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be used up and down the country, to help support the 50,000 sufferers who will be diagnosed in the coming twelve months.”
Jeremy Hodge, Managing Director at Cherwell and Cathy’s boss, said: “We really never know when these circumstances will hit us. Denise, Cathy and thousands like them do the hard bit, so now it’s down to the rest of us to do what we can. Metsä Tissue and Cherwell have already donated to Cathy’s appeal, and would encourage all readers to do the same.”
You can donate some money towards the new machine by emailing Cathy at Catherine.
Campbell@cleaningnet.co.uk.
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