HUGH GRANT - GRANT SUPPORTS PANCREATIC CANCER SUFFERERS

GRANT SUPPORTS PANCREATIC CANCER SUFFERERS

HUGH GRANT is supporting a new website which gives information to pancreatic cancer sufferers - in memory of his late mother who died of the disease in 2001.
The Love Actually star's mum Fyvola Susan passed away following an 18 month battle with the condition eight years ago.
Grant found it difficult to source information about the condition through the traumatic time and is thankful the new website has been set up to help future patients and their families.
The site gives out advice and encourages patients to share their stories by gathering interviews about their first-hand experiences.
Grant says, "When my mother was diagnosed, whenever it was eight years ago, the doctors were great but you did want, and I know she wanted, more information. You wanted to really hear it from the horse's mouth (first hand) - what is this thing like? What's it like to experience it? You know, what are the options? What are the possibilities?
"I went on this website, HealthTalkOnline, and it was just so far superior to anything that was available then and frankly anything that's available now. The vast majority of these health websites you end up on are sponsored by big pharmaceutical companies and are just slightly slanted. They have a commercial aspect. This is all done by top Oxford doctors and is the website of quality, I think."