Living well with bowel cancer: Community support event in Scotland
Event details
- When: Monday 21 October 2024
- Time: 9.30am-3.30pm
- Who's it for: anyone affected by bowel cancer, including family and friends
- Where: City Chambers, 253 High Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 1YJ
Our in-person community support events bring people living with bowel cancer together to connect with others who’ve been through something similar.
Throughout the day you’ll learn more about bowel cancer from expert-led information and support sessions, so you feel better supported to cope with the disease.
We’ll be covering topics such as:
- the effects of treatment for bowel cancer
- looking after your emotional wellbeing
- living well with a stoma
- neuropathy
- sexual function and sexuality post colorectal surgery and treatment
- keeping active and getting back to exercise
You can download the full agenda here.
It’s free to attend and lunch and refreshments will be provided.
You must register to attend. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Our speakers
Claire Coughlan is Clinical Lead for Bowel Cancer UK, her focus is on provision of support for patients, health professional education and ensuring that the charities clinical focus remains current and relevant.
Claire is also a Consultant Nurse in Colorectal Cancer with expertise symptom assessment and the suspected cancer referral pathway, family history and late effects of cancer treatment.
I am a clinical psychologist working within the clinical health psycho-oncology service based at the Western General Hospital. I am keen to empower patients to access their own coping strategies in order to life their best quality of life alongside physical health conditions.
Gina is an advanced specialist oncology dietitian with over 20yrs of experience in dietetics. Gina has and currently works in a number of areas of oncology including bowel cancer surgery. Gina has completed Masters level training in gastrointestinal side effects from cancer treatments both during and long after treatment.
Gina currently works part time as an NHS Macmillan dietitian and has a private freelance practice (The Rehab Dietitian). Gina works as an expert advisor for PRDA (Pelvic radiotherapy disease association).
Isabel is a specialist cancer nurse and psychosexual therapist and set up the first psychosexual therapy clinic at the Royal Marsden Hospital (London) in 2010.
She offers psychosexual therapy to people living with and beyond cancer and their partners in the NHS, charity and private sectors (face-to-face & on-line).
Barry graduated in medicine from the University of Glasgow and completed specialist training in palliative medicine. He was awarded a prestigious National Cancer Research Institute fellowship and joined the University of Edinburgh in 2007 (Professor Fallon’s Group) where he has remained. He continues to develop research in cancer cachexia with a strong emphasis on integrating rehabilitation principles.
I currently work as the stoma service lead and stoma nurse for the Golden Jubilee which is Scotland’s national waiting times hospital. I have been a stoma nurse for around 8 years now and previously worked within NHS Lothian. Prior to becoming a stoma nurse, I worked for nearly 8 years on a colorectal ward in NHS Lothian.
Mari Asher,
Edinburgh Leisure, Health Development Officer Long Term Conditions
I have been a part of the fitness industry for over 20 years, during that time I have worked with a diverse range of individuals to improve their quality of life by helping them stay active. I now specialise in supporting people with long term conditions including cancer.