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Losing someone to pancreatic cancer is deeply painful, and grief can feel different for everyone - there’s no right or “normal” way to cope.
Remember you are not alone - we’re here to support you after a loss through our services, and we can also help by signposting you to other sources of support.
We offer support groups on a needs basis, and you can also access our counselling service in partnership with Cancer Focus NI. Find out more below.
Winston’s Wish is a charity that offers free, accessible online grief support to children and young people (aged 25 or under) across the UK who are bereaved or facing the death of someone important.
In this episode of the 'Grief in Common' podcast by Winston's Wish, Rosie returns with her mum, Lisa, as they talk about the way Rosie’s dad’s terminal cancer diagnosis and death impacted their lives individually.
The conversation covers how Lisa and husband John told Rosie and her two younger siblings about John’s diagnosis, coping with hospice care during COVID, and how photos and videos are extremely precious to them as a family.
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Rosie Strutt is 20-years-old. It was on her 16th birthday when her dad first went to hospital with symptoms of pancreatic cancer. She was 18 when he died.
Grainne (then 21), is one of a number of children and young people who have lost a parent to pancreatic cancer taking part in NIPANC’s 2022 #TimeMatters Campaign.
Kerry Doherty is 18 and lives in Aghalee. She has just passed her A-levels and is studying Law with Criminology at the University of Ulster. Her dad, Gerald Doherty was 44 when he died of pancreatic cancer. She was just 11 years old and starting first year.
Ellie Irvine is the daughter of Kerry Irvine, one of our founding members. At the age of five Ellie and her brother Nathan, then eight, lost her dad Noel to the disease. He died in 2011 at just 54 years-old.