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Cancer News (short stories)

Never underestimate the power of a woman!

February 26, 2010

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Miracles do happen!
When Stinne Holm Bergholdt, 32, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, in 2004, she was told she was most unlikely to conceive.  Chemotherapy would give her an early menopause, but …. she decided it was worth while  freezing part of her right ovary.
After [...]

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Study of older female cancer survivors

February 25, 2010

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Older Female Cancer Survivors Have Added Health Issues Compared To Their Counterparts
As cancer survivors live longer, questions arise about what kind of care long-term they require.
Survivorship for older patients now seems top of the agenda;  in Britain the NHS has now come out with statements that they are doing more to help this [...]

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Is this too much information?

January 9, 2010

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Latest story from Association Press
If you thought there was enough personal information floating around on Facebook, I wonder what you think of this?
Latest posting is a apparently a campaign designed to raise awareness about breast cancer, asking women to update their status with one simple word: the colour of their bra.  Give them [...]

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How to understand what nurses say

December 23, 2009

Do you Triage your laundry?
Some nurses speak ‘medic-speak’.  You may not understand them.  But, as in all jobs, those that work in a sector have their own way of describing things.
But their ‘in-speak’ can have its own words – hence one nurse who told a colleague “I am Triaging the laundry” .
Translation:  she just meant [...]

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Don’t forget the men!

December 22, 2009

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Girls – it’s Cancertalk Week January 18-24th
Men are very bad at being practical.
They are 40% more likely to die of cancer
Simply because they are less likely to seek out information about health issues.
So kick your man out into the cold.
Steel you heart and tell him to go and get checked.
You [...]

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People Power triumphs!

December 21, 2009

Handing in Petition today    Flickr

I love it when people power gets something done!
Some time ago,  along with lots of other websites, I asked readers to click on to a Petition on the 10 Downing Street website – asking for the NHS to close down 084 numbers which cost us more than ‘normal’ ones.  It [...]

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Will NHS miss breast screening target times yet again?

December 20, 2009

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Breakthrough Comment On Breast Screening Annual Review
18 Dec 09
Never backward in giving itself a pat on the back, the NHS has issued a press release titled:  New NHS Breast Screening statistics reveal nearly 2 million women were screened in 2007-08.
Wonderful – but has anyone noticed that their self-set target of improvement to screening [...]

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Latest money-wasting idea from NHS

December 18, 2009

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New Number to Call
Latest gimmick from Dept. Health is to provide us with a new telephone number for medical questions.
111 – or ONE ONE ONE.
This isn’t for emergencies – that is still 999.
111 is for people to call who want advice about a medical problem, and to take pressure off 999 – because [...]

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New way of using Herceptin when treating Breast Cancer

December 17, 2009

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New Breast Cancer Treatment Recommended at San Antonio
Every year, the world’s top Oncologists gather at the San Antonio symposium, in Texas.  This year, CancerCompass reports that Doctors at the  symposium have found a new protocol for treating breast cancer shows possibly paradigm-shifting results, they say.
Dr. Edith Perez, a breast cancer researcher at a [...]

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If you have cancer, and live in the wrong area, who cares?

December 4, 2009

NOBODY CARES IF YOU LIVE IN THE WRONG AREA AND HAVE CANCER
Exactly a year ago the Department of Health Published the National Cancer Reform Strategy, calling for reform to address the “unacceptable” variation in cancer survival rates across the country.
If you live in Herefordshire – heaven help you;  according to the Patients’ Association (PA) you [...]

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