Rainbow Oncology

19/08/2025

09/08/2025

This women's day - fight like a girl, ladies ❤️!

07/08/2025

Women’s Month Spotlight: Uterine Cancer Awareness 📣

Also known as endometrial cancer, uterine cancer affects the lining of the uterus (endometrium) — and it’s one of the top 6 cancers affecting women globally.

Early Detection Saves Lives, be alert to these warning signs.

CANSA encourages all women to prioritise their reproductive health this Women’s Month.

Read more at: https://cansa.org.za/building-resilient-economies-begins-with-healthy-women/


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07/08/2025

It crept in slowly after the diagnosis…

Whispering lies like, “You don’t really belong here. You’re not sick enough. You haven’t had it as bad as others…”

But I sat in the quiet and held it – exactly like this – knees hugged close, truth held tighter: “I don’t need to justify my pain to earn the right to heal…”

This is one of THOSE reflections – not shared in the thick of it, but after walking with it, feeling it fully, and finally making peace with it…

Simply put…. Imposter syndrome…

Not the typical kind (the career kind).
But the kind that crept in subtlety, silently, cruelly after a life-altering finding in a radiology department...

Yes, I was diagnosed with an invasive carcinoma.
Yes, I had surgery, radiation, oncology visits, exhaustion, fear, the full mental and physical roller coaster. And there’s meds in my near future.

But…
I didn’t need chemo.
It was caught early.
The prognosis was good.

And somehow that little voice returned: “Not good enough…”

I found myself on the periphery of a club I never wanted to join- the cancer club. It’s one that no one voluntarily signs up for. And yet, though I fully qualified for it, I felt like I didn’t even fully belong in it.

Not sick ENOUGH.
Not suffering ENOUGH.
Not cancered-up ENOUGH.

It brought up wiring from long ago-
Childhood patterns of feeling that I needed to be someone different, to earn my space in this world, to be ENOUGH just to belong…

And so the psychological battle began… Not with cancer, but with the echoes of a past I thought I’d already healed.

Let me be clear:

I’ve worked through this now.
I know that trauma cannot and should not be compared.
That healing cannot be measured by the weight of suffering.
That pain is pain.
That fear is fear.
That you are allowed to (and should) FEEL ALL OF IT- regardless of what anyone else is going through.

But here is what helped me move through the unkindness of Imposter Syndrome:

💛 I compassionately embraced my own space. This was my story. Not anyone else’s.

💛 I stopped comparing. Comparison only feeds inadequacy.

💛 I let myself feel it all without minimizing it. No “At least...” Just truth. And I remembered a good friend’s words: “Naomi, cancer is still cancer and it sucks.”

💛 I honoured my gratitude without guilt. Yes I’m thankful it was caught early. Yes, it’s still hard. BOTH can be true.

💛 And I reminded myself - again and again – that I’m not required to suffer more in order to belong.

My friends, maybe your ‘Not enough’ voice didn’t show up during a diagnosis. Maybe it surfaced in grief, in a heartbreak others told you to “get over”, or in a parenting struggle that felt too big for the world to see.

Whatever it was, know this :

✨You do not need to compare your pain for it to be valid.

✨You do not need to earn your place in healing spaces.

✨You’re allowed to walk through the hard – even if it looks different to someone else’s. Your hard is still HARD and it sucks.

And if you’ve ever whispered to yourself, “Do I really belong here?”

Yes. You do.

Your story matters.
Your pain counts.
Your healing is real.

And here’s the important one:

You are ALWAYS enough.

With love and enough,
Naomi ❤️

27/07/2025

ARE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR A CANCER TRIAL?

Rainbow Research, an affiliate of Rainbow Oncology, conducts clinical oncology trials with patients throughout South Africa. We work with medications that are not yet registered in South Africa to create cutting-edge cancer treatments backed by the pharmaceutical sector.

Visit to see if you are eligible to join one of our ongoing clinical cancer trials.

Please share this post and spread the word - we would love to be able to make a difference in as many lives as possible.

27/07/2025

ARE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR A CANCER TRIAL?

Rainbow Research, an affiliate of Rainbow Oncology conducts clinical oncology trials with patients throughout South Africa. We work with medications that are not yet registered in South Africa to create cutting-edge cancer treatments backed by the pharmaceutical sector.

Visit Rainbow Research to see if you are eligible to join one of our ongoing clinical cancer trials.

Please share this post and spread the word - we would love to be able to make a difference in as many lives as possible.

25/07/2025

“Life can be challenging at the best of times and the diagnosis of cancer can be life changing,” says Dr Szpak, “we want to ensure that our patients are as comfortable as possible during their treatment.”
A proud and capable team of Specialist Clinical Oncologists assist Dr Szpak at Rainbow Oncology.
Situated at Parklands, Amanzimtoti and Ballito, contact for further information.

www.rainbowoncology.co.za

22/07/2025

Mesothelioma Trials (Rainbow Research)

We currently are offering participation in a clinical trial at the Rainbow Research, an affiliate of Rainbow Oncology.

We are comparing standard immune chemotherapy and upgraded immunotherapy using Volrustomig to determine whether the combination immunotherapy offers better prognoses to patients affected by pleural mesothelioma.

To read more on immunotherapy please visit: https://rainbowoncology.co.za/immunotherapy-a-new-way-to-treat-cancer/

For more information, please email us at trials@rainbowoncology.co.za, or call 0319043098 or refer to our affiliate company - Rainbow Research for further details. www.oncologyrainbowresearch.com https://www.facebook.com/rainbowcancerresearch