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The chemotherapy treatment centre - in a supermarket car park

Patients and nursing staff show what it's like inside a mobile chemotherapy treatment centre.

Every day, The Christie's purpose-built unit travels to different locations around Greater Manchester. It usually parks in supermarket car parks, and it means patients having regular treatment, like chemotherapy, don't always have to travel to the main hospital.

The unit is staffed by two nurses and has space for four patients. Angela has been going to the mobile unit for four months, "You can go to the hospital and be there all day, but coming here, you have your appointment time and they just seem to get on with it."

Kaye is having a Herceptin injection. She says "It's not daunting, you're not going into a big hospital, you're not walking down corridors. You're not frightened, you know what you're coming to."

This clip is originally from 5 live Afternoon Edition on Thursday 21st June 2017.

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