Family raffle off their £180,000 Lake District home for £2.50 a ticket to help cancer charity after their three-year-old daughter was struck down by the disease Samantha Wilkinson, 36, is raising money for Neuroblastoma UK with the raffle In 2018, her then 19-month-old daughter Oonagh was diagnosed with cancer Family, from Dalton-on-Furness, selling 120,000 raffles for … Read more
‘Virtual biopsies’ that combine CT scans with ultrasound images could replace invasive tissue sampling for cancer patients, scientists claim Biopsies are given to cancer patients to map out the different cells in tumours Understanding the makeup of a tumour is essential to treatment planning However, the need for biopsies must be balanced against the impact on … Read more
A mother who defied doctors’ advice to abort her pregnancy in order to receive treatment for cancer has been given less than two years to live after giving birth to a health baby boy. Sarah Milner, 30, sacrificed her own health to save her baby after receiving the heartbreaking diagnosis that she had an aggressive … Read more
A top surgeon has raised fears cancer surgeries may be axed in the coming days unless the national lockdown swiftly curbs the spread of coronavirus. Professor Neil Mortensen, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, rang alarm bells today after warning the situation in hospitals is getting ‘much worse’, and escalating faster than the … Read more
A top surgeon has raised fears cancer surgeries may be axed in the coming days unless the national lockdown swiftly curbs the spread of coronavirus. Professor Neil Mortensen, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, warned today the situation in hospitals is getting ‘much worse’, and escalating faster than the ‘slow-motion car crash’ he … Read more
Parents of boy, 6, was readmitted to hospital two years after being declared cancer free following leukaemia battle reveal their joy as he is diagnosed with common virus and given green light to go home Oscar Saxelby-Lee who battled cancer will leave hospital after he fell ill last week The boy, 6, beat a rare … Read more
Parents of boy, 6, was readmitted to hospital two years after being declared cancer free following leukaemia battle reveal their joy as he is diagnosed with common virus and given green light to go home Oscar Saxelby-Lee who battled cancer will leave hospital after he fell ill last week The boy, 6, beat a rare … Read more
Woman, 39, reveals she had a complete hysterectomy to save her life after doctors mistakenly took her womb cancer for gluten intolerance and recommended she ‘eat yoghurt’ Dafina Malovska, 39, saw GP four times in four months due to bloating in 2014 Symptoms were dismissed as gluten intolerance and she was told to eat yoghurt Eventually saw private a … Read more
Woman, 39, reveals she had a complete hysterectomy to save her life after doctors mistakenly took her womb cancer for gluten intolerance and recommended she ‘eat yoghurt’ Dafina Malovska, 39, saw GP four times in four months due to bloating in 2014 Symptoms were dismissed as gluten intolerance and she was told to eat yoghurt Eventually saw private a … Read more
Health bosses last night insisted urgent cancer operations in London will not be scrapped to ease the strain on hospitals inundated with coronavirus patients. Sir David Sloman, NHS regional director for the capital, stressed that surgery is continuing despite the increased demand on hospitals from Covid-19. His pledge came after it was claimed that potentially … Read more