Obituary: Helen Patterson 5/6/1962-18/04/2012

Helen PattersonLast week Helen Patterson died following a year long battle with a rare sarcoma. She leaves Paul and five children.

She was a Prostate Cancer Oncology specialist in Cambridge. I was privileged to know her as a colleague and as a crew mate.

Helen believed passionately in empowering women through sport. She was a well known rower in both Cambridge and Oxford and an accomplished runner. Even as her disease progressed, she completed a half marathon for prostate cancer last October and was still running in January. Continue reading “Obituary: Helen Patterson 5/6/1962-18/04/2012”