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1. www.maggies.org › about-us › how-maggies-worksOur story - Maggie's

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   Maggie was a writer, gardener and designer. When she was 47, Maggie was diagnosed with breast cancer and five years later, in May 1993, on a visit to the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, she was told that it had returned. After hearing this, Maggie and her husband Charles Jencks were moved to a windowless corridor where they were left to ...

2. www.maggies.org › about-us › how-maggies-worksOur founders - Maggie's

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   Maggie Keswick Jencks - Founder. Maggie Keswick Jencks (1941-1995) was a writer, gardener and designer. With her father, she founded the Holywood Trust (south-west Scotland) and the Keswick Foundation (Hong Kong). Her book on Chinese Gardens is widely regarded as a classic on the subject and she was commissioned for many garden and interior ...

3. www.archdaily.com › 498519The Story of Maggie's Centres: How 17 Architects Came to ...

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   Apr 27, 2014 · This is the central idea behind the experiment Keswick Jencks, or “Maggie,” started with her husband, architectural historian and theorist Charles Jencks, more than two decades ago. Their ...

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4. metro.co.uk › 2023/09/14 › the-inspiring-womanThe woman helping hundreds of thousands of cancer patients

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   Sep 14, 2023 · Dame Laura is pictured at the Maggie’s West London centre, at Charing Cross Hospital (Credit: Nick Edwards) Maggie Keswick Jencks was first diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 47 and ...

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5. www.jencksfoundation.org › explore › textA View From the Frontline – Jencks Foundation

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   A View From the Frontline. 1994. Maggie Keswick Jencks, Charles Jencks’ second wife, wrote this text while battling breast cancer, which returned after a period of remission. It follows Maggie’s personal experience of fighting the disease, while offering criticisms of how public health systems approach and treat cancer and cancer patients.

6. jerseyeveningpost.com › voices › 2023/07/10'When my friend’s husband was diagnosed with cancer, Maggie’s ...

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   Jul 10, 2023 · In 1988, Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 47. Five years later, on a visit to a hospital in Edinburgh, she was told that her cancer had returned.

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   Who is Maggie Keswick Jencks?

   • Our founder Maggie Keswick Jencks used her own experience of having cancer to create a new type of cancer care. The first Maggie's opened in Edinburgh in 1996, and we now have a network of centres across the UK and some abroad. A different kind of cancer care.

   Our story - Maggie's

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   Who is Maggie Jencks?

   • With her husband Charles Jencks, an architectural historian and landscape designer, she conceived the idea of a new kind of cancer-care centre that would transform people’s lives. Maggie was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988.

   Charles Jencks Maggie's Cancer Centres | House & Garden

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   Who is Keswick Jencks?

   • This is the central idea behind the experiment Keswick Jencks, or “Maggie,” started with her husband, architectural historian and theorist Charles Jencks, more than two decades ago.

   The Story of Maggie's Centres: How 17 Architects Came to ... - ArchDaily

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   Who was Margaret Keswick Jencks?

   • Maggie's Centres are the legacy of Margaret Keswick Jencks, a terminally ill woman who had the notion that cancer tre...

   The Story of Maggie's Centres: How 17 Architects Came to ... - ArchDaily

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   Why was Maggie a cancer researcher?

   • Maggie believed it was important for people with cancer to be informed participants in their medical treatment and researched cancer centres across the world to find ways in which people could live better with cancer.

   Our founders | Maggie's

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   What happened to Maggie and Charles?

   • When Maggie was 47, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and five years later, in May 1993, she was told that it had returned and was given three months to live. After hearing this, Maggie and her husband Charles were moved to a windowless corridor where they were left to process the news.

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8. www.houseandgarden.co.uk › gallery › charles-jencksCharles Jencks Maggie's Cancer Centres | House & Garden

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   Oct 15, 2019 · The architect and landscape designer Charles Jencks has died aged 80. In his honour, we revisit a 2017 feature on Maggie's Cancer Centres, the pioneering foundation he created with his wife, the writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick-Jencks, who died of cancer in 1995. Chief executive Laura Lee with co-founder Charles Jencks and garden ...