Blood cancer patient and staff stories

Strike action from Thursday 27 June to Tuesday 2 July 2024

Junior doctors at The Christie will strike from 7am on Thursday 27 June until 7am on Tuesday 2 July 2024.

We are proactively contacting patients with appointments that may be affected. If you have an appointment on any of these dates, please continue to come to The Christie and our other centres as planned, unless we contact you to tell you otherwise. Please do not call to check if your appointment is still going ahead.

Juliet Harris, senior clinical trials coordinator

Watch Juliet talk about why working in research for blood cancer motivates her and how her role helps patients.

Richard Dudley-Jenkins, clinical research nurse

See Richard talk about working in haematology and how he supports cancer patients on clinical trials.

Simeon Mitton, clinical nurse specialist

Hear how Simeon supports lymphoma patients through their treatment and why he wanted to work in blood cancer.

Lymphoma patient Jim

Find out what Jim has to say about his lymphoma treatment at The Christie what it's like being a clinical trial patient.

A myeloma treatment story from a Christie patient

Hear from a clinical trials patient talking about their experience at The Christie after they were diagnosed with melanoma and had no treatment options.