Julia Briscoe is the Head of Complementary Therapies for Barts Health NHS Trust , delivering complementary therapies to NHS patients with and recovering from cancer. As she joins talks with the Spa Life Academy to break down barriers between spas and cancer, we ask her what her work is all about… What does your work […]

Looking after your hands and nails is particularly important during and after chemotherapy treatment because your skin becomes dryer and more delicate and your nails become weaker and more prone to splitting.  Here, cancer support charity, Look Good Feel Better, explain how to look after them during cancer treatment. You probably won’t notice the changes […]

When Sharon Morrison, author of Even the Eyebrows?, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was prepared to lose her hair in her fight for survival, but the theory and the reality proved two separate things, and finding a wig turned out to be a journey all of its own. It was official; the malignant tumour […]