Jemma Ferguson-Gale
Legacy Promotions Manager, Macmillan
Priyanka is a married mother, working as a schoolteacher and children’s life coach, navigating raising children alongside recovery from grade 3 triple negative breast cancer.
Priyanka was incredibly shocked to be diagnosed with cancer when she was 36, while her daughters were two and four years old. After chemotherapy and surgery, mastectomy and reconstruction, Priyanka is now in remission and breaking down the taboo of talking about cancer, especially in the South Asian community and with children.
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Priyanka credits her Macmillan nurse with helping her daughters understand her diagnosis and treatment. Priyanka didn’t have all the answers, so the nurse arranged for the girls to visit the hospital ward when it was empty. They were able to see how everything worked and the medicines that would treat their mum.
Priyanka describes this support as ‘invaluable’ and has since written a children’s book ‘When Mummy Had Cancer’, to help others talk about cancer with their young families and ensure South Asian families are represented on its pages. Priyanka discusses the support offered throughout challenging consultations: “We were so grateful for the Macmillan nurses who were present; they guided us through those meetings.”
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Everyone with a cancer diagnosis deserves the best care to meet their unique needs. We’ll do whatever it takes to help more people with cancer across the UK get the best possible care, whoever and wherever they are. Gifts in wills fund over a third of Macmillan’s vital services, like those Priyanka received.
Today, 3.5 million people need our support. This number is growing. Writing your will is the best way to protect the people and causes you care about.
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