New imaging technology has been developed to help picture how tumours form. Early diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancer could be helped by the tool which researchers at the
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Patients with lung cancer – the disease that killed former Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell – are at the mercy of “woefully poor” NHS equipment, according to a new report. The
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Experts have called for systematic use of an “exercise prescription” to help cancer patients cope with treatment side-effects. A global panel reviewed evidence and then gave guidance about the benefits
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Two 31-year-old women have told how they became “secondary sisters” after learning that their breast cancer is incurable and they will not be able to have children. At first sight,
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The Deputy Minister for Housing and Local Government, Hannah Blythyn AM, has this week officially launched a new network to support injured veterans. The Veterans Trauma Network Wales (VTN Wales)
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The death rate for women with breast cancer has plunged 44% in nearly 30 years, according to new figures. Analysis by Cancer Research UK suggests that more than 130,000 UK
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The first targeted immunotherapy treatment for people with triple negative breast cancer has been provisionally rejected for use on the NHS. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice)
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Cancer patients are missing out on vital care as specialist nurses struggle with huge workloads, according to a new report. Macmillan Cancer Support said specialist cancer nurses were having to
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The parents of a sick boy who has never tasted food have accused the British Government of prioritising seriously ill children in England over those in Northern Ireland. Jack McCrystal,
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Almost 12 million adults in England were prescribed potentially addictive drugs such as sleeping pills and painkillers last year, with half taking them long term, a new report says. A
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