Cornwall Cancer Cafe Podcast

The Potager Garden in Cornwall is running sessions to help people with a cancer diagnosis. A garden is a therapeutic environment - and that's director Mark Harris's view. He's working with The Cove (MacMillan service at Royal Cornwall Hospital) to give people an experience of horticultural mindfulness. Emma and I are also discussing how new treatments can help deliver hope to patients.

Father Peter is very open about how a cancer diagnosis hit him and how it became known to his flock. He is also open about how he deals with issues and challenges day to day and where he finds his hope. Find out more about our podcasts on www.cancercafepodcast.org

Nicky Lampshire is one of the managers at The Cove - a unit at The Royal Cornwall Hospital operated by MacMillan Cancer Support. It is a welcoming place with a cafe and many supportive programmes to help patients through every stage of cancer. We ask Nicky about her work there.Please visit our website and find out about more help and support in Cornwall and nationally.

Matthi and Emma meet Claire and Emma who run music therapy sessions at The Cove centre at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. We find out how they came to take up the role and what benefits are available to those with a diagnosis of cancer. We even have a mock-up music therapy session in the studio.Emma's music therapy website: Www.midcornwallmusictherapy.co.ukClare's music therapy website:https://www.keskarmusictherapy.co.uk/Visit our website for more information www.cancercafe.org and follow us on Facebook.

'Cornwall, My Home' has become Cornwall's new anthem. It is sung everywhere and at Cornwall's most important events. How many realise, however, that the composer has a cancer story of his own? We meet Harry Glasson and find out about how he had built so much of his life around singing and music, to only then be given a diagnosis which would change so much. ind more information about our podcasts on www.cancercafepodcast.orgPlease SHARE our episodes on social media so that other people can benefit too.

This podcast series, sponsored by The National Lottery Community Fund, aims to bring a wide range of thoughts and people to talk about supporting people through cancer. Some of these are those with lived experience, others are those providing support. This episode talks with the chief executive of Cancer Support UK - Mark Guymer.He explains what the charity does and how he came to running the organisation.We will also preview another up-coming episode.ind more information about our podcasts on www.cancercafepodcast.orgPlease SHARE our episodes on social media so that other people can benefit too.

Welcome to the first episode of the Cornwall Cancer Cafe Podcast. We are supported financially by the National Lottery Community Fund to run a year of weekly cancer support podcasts. These will be a weekly audio show and some videos too. We aim to give people with a diagnosis, their family and friends a big virtual hug while also informing and offering a hand of friendship.We are not medical experts, counsellors, doctors, or consultants - what we are, though are people with lived experience. Your host, Matthi Clarke, is shown in this episode's cover image having his stem cells harvested for a stem cell transplant in 2023. Matthi takes you through what to expect from this podcast series in this show, and introduces himself so that you can be assured that he is hosting this with real and recent lived experience.Though this is targeted at the Cornwall,UK audience, we hope the hug and support travels further afield too.ind more information about our podcasts on www.cancercafepodcast.orgPlease SHARE our episodes on social media so that other people can benefit too.