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most people, was brmiphl home to me before I even not there. Inquirinp about bus times at ( 'horllon Street tins
the conquest of cancer : iff? * ■rV a rtv
hut just one mention nf Christie Hospital was enough. iMe: "K.xcuse me. can you tell me which buses no to
Withinjrton'.’ " Inspector (sighing): ' ‘Whereabouts exact I vV" iMe: "Christie Hospital, actually” . Inspector (more cautiously): "H r . . the hospital
itself.’ ” Me: “ Yes. I have an appointment at !l-.'!(l a.m.. can I
gel there on lime?” And the inspector was suddenly all sympathy and
helpfulness. A very, very nice man, I thought. ()n (lie bus itself. I asked the driver, also looking
non-communicalivc as drivers often do. lo tell me when to gel off.
“ Do you mean the nearest stop to Christie, love?” ..5ue Ritchie on the fashion art of clever deception
he asks. “ The one nearest to the main entrance, please."
says I. And it happened again. He not only (old me where
to net off, be stopped the bus and walked down the
lennth o f it I o do it, rather Ilian yell inn "This is Chris tie. love!” as I expected him to. It didn’t stop several o f my fellow passengers over
hearing. however, and I could feel the overt (dances as I made my way to the bus doors.
I hen it occurred to me. They, the driver, and the
bus station inspector all thought I was a patient — a cancer patient — making my first visit lo Christie. I heir altitude said it all. What a dreadful place it
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( I ' l l t lS T IK Ho spi - ttil . . . t ho very words tiro enough to strike fear
and dread into the heart. To most of us. Christie is
synonymous with just one thing — - cancer.
And. despite the fact that
we all know there have been unbelievable advances in
tin* treatment of it over the last lew deeades. cancer is the line disease the iirdinary mail or woman in tlie street fears must. Snme cancers are now
"cu ra l i le ” , and mure anil mure sufferers can expect to su rv iv e lon ger than was ever thought possible, even 111 years ago. Slllch of the credit fur all
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this lies at tin- duurs o f places like Christie Hospi tal. which, as well as lieinp a treatment centre, is also Western Kumpe’s bigpesi research centre into hath the causes and the (.refit ment of cancers. Hut. fur patients from
this purl of the world, it is simply the plan- where — they think — they'll end up if they pet cancer. And the first thing we
discovered when we went on a conducted behind-t lie- scenes tour o f Christie was this is uni necessarily so!
Taken as a percent,-igo of
the amniml of treatment for cancers pi veil in the North West. V K K Y U T T f .K is a c tu a l ly c a r r ie d nut at Christie itself.
'I'llE part of the Christie complex the public seldom secs is the research side, housed in the massive and w ar id -re n a tv a e d It oil Radium Institute. Cancer is not one disease
hat many diseases, and the different kinds, occurring in different parts of the body, can affect different people in different ways, not only in the way they are affected by the disease
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The name doesn't spell doom, but
THE “ Rogues’ Gallery” of pictures on the wall of In I he majority o f eases,
patients don't go tu ( 'hris- tie. ( 'hrislie .puns In them! •Many, many surgical and
other treatments fur can cers are carried uni Inrally.
..in district prncrnl hnspitals. Hut n f t-iiurse. snnu-
patients do go tn Christie and if discovering you have a cancer seems like t he end nl the- world, being tnlil you you have tn pn tn Christie, seems worse.
N> just what is it like? Is
it a morbid place, where people have little hope and no expectations nf a I'm mv?
P a t ien ts making th e ir first .journey there, usually
Inr nut-pat ie nl exam hint inns nr tests, run still lie in slate nf shock as it's often fairly soon after the diap- nosis o f cnilerr has been made and nn-niie can tell them much in any ease until niter tests are done.
Th e bu i ld in g i t s e l f is
I 'uifly unassmnin.p. T in stone sign above the nhl pules looks forbidding. but apart from that, it looks <[iiiti- ordinary. A deep breath anil you're
bat also in the way they respond to treatments.
And therein lies the problem. It is a huge sub
ject, hut break-throughs, most of them small, are happening all the time.
A "cure for cancer", in
the broadest sense of the word, may never actually he a chieved, bill the research being carried out at the Holt Institute, and
a
through the doors and this is l In- time for t In- first surprise. Most hospital have pot
their art
In.pether now anil are not the
fri.pht en i up places they used to be. but Christie, from reception to the wards and oven tin- i m - v it nl ib- leap, leap hospi
tal c o r r id o r s , is qu ite luxurious! t 'a rpet s e v e r y w In-re.
plants, pictures, hripht uni- lorms — anil even brighter smiles - for the staff; in lad not bine like a top hospi tal nl all. T h is is a l l c a r e fu l ly planned, of course, because
when it comes to eant-er. the
ps.vebolopv can lu- all-impor tant.
Knr patients, and llu-ir
relatives, there is trauma enough. At Christie they are received with a tran q u i l i t y you can almost touch, with patience and understanding which never even ciinu-s elosi- to bring palrnnisiiip anil with quiet efficiency. I’ h e re is 1 r a pe d y a t
Christie. I nit there is Inupli- le r and jnv and hope as well. □
at other places alt over the world, is trying lo unravel some of the mysteries. Maybe one day, through
knowledge, the answers will he found.
Meanwhile, the fun draising goes on, not just for the Holt Institute, bill for Christie itself. I f YOU could help in any way, the Appeals Office a I Christie is ready and waiting to hear from you. Q
C o v e r p ic tu r e s : O ld B u rn le y a n d P a d ih am b y R o n a S w in d le h u r s t , se e P ag e 8
the children’s unit at Christie. Ex-patients, who keep in touch with the staff
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