The UK is set to become the world leader in ground-breaking genetic research into cancer and rare diseases, which will transform how diseases are diagnosed and treated, thanks to a
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From September 2014 a new module will be available from the Cancer Education Team at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). The course ‘Supporting patients living with and beyond cancer’ was developed
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People in the UK are grossly misinformed about breast cancer survival and fail to realise how poor it is compared with other countries, according to a leading charity. Only a
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A pilot project to test new ways of measuring cancer waiting times in Wales are underway, the Welsh Government has announced. A single cancer pathway will be piloted, measured and
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Too many cancer patients are being shown a “lack of compassion” by healthcare workers, a charity said. A fifth of cancer patients said they felt like a “set of symptoms”
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A “tipping point” has been reached in the war against cancer with half of newly diagnosed patients in England and Wales surviving at least 10 years, a landmark study has
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A new drug for breast cancer which extends women’s lives by almost six months is to be blocked from routine NHS access under draft guidance issued by a health watchdog.
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Adverts for a pancreatic cancer charity that featured sufferers saying they would rather have a different form of the disease have been cleared following 121 complaints. The three press ads
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The way hospitals record deaths could be covering up poor treatment and costing lives, according to a new report. Figures show a dramatic rise in the number of people recorded
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Older people are being denied proper access to cancer care, an academic has claimed. A high proportion of older women with a certain form of breast cancer receive less chemotherapy
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