Winning the battle...

This blog was set up to update everyone on Quent's battle with cancer and we are happily having a truce at the moment, so I won't apologise for the lack of recent posts. It's nearly five months since we last went to Manchester and it's still another month before we go again.

But tonight we got great news from Philip, worth sharing with you. He had a scan today and it was clear - three months after his tough open heart surgery.

And last week our friends Ben and Miranda came for dinner and told us that their son Alex, 3, is doing amazingly well, fighting his neuroblastomy. Alex is currently having immunotherapy (and all that it entails) although not IL-2. He might have had IL-2 alongside everything else he's being given, but he wasn't allocated onto that part of the trial.

Two other family members, both recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, also seem to be doing well.

A cancer diagnosis is a real body blow but it seems the Doctors are making great progress. Philip and Quent discussed the decoration in the new wing at the Christie more than their health this evening. Isn't that uplifting?