Real patient stories

Hear from genuine patients about their experiences in primary care

Click on the condition to hear the patient’s story

• Familial breast and ovarian cancer – a woman diagnosed with breast cancer with a family history…
• Inherited cardiac condition – a man who has an inherited cardiomyopathy… and a mother who lost her child due to an inherited arrhythmia
• Child with a genetic condition – a mother talks about her daughter who has an inherited condition causing developmental delay...
• The mother of a teenager who died suddenly from an inherited cardiac condition.

Now you have heard the patients´stories – go to our online modules to learn more about how to care for these types of patients. 

Our thanks to the patients who were willing to tell their stories, and to Genetic Alliance UK.