Cancer specialists demand urgent meeting with Health Secretary Matt Hancock over ‘crazy’ NHS decision to ration treatment Emerged thousands of cancer patients were denied Covid-safe treatments Some claim NHS decision to ration cancer treatment during the crisis is ‘crazy’ Cancer specialists and MPs demanding meeting with the Health Secretary Reported eight million people will be … Read more
Ex-ITN reporter Ken Rees dies of cancer aged 76 as colleagues pay tribute to 6ft 5in television news ‘legend’ who made his name covering the Falklands campaign and Gulf War Ken Rees was a familiar face on television throughout the 1980s and 1990s He reported from across the world covering stories including civil war in Beirut … Read more
The coronavirus killed more people than cancer and dementia combined in April, statistics have revealed. A total of 27,764 people in England and Wales were killed by COVID-19 last month, compared to 10,316 victims of cancer and 9,892 dementia patients. And, between March 2 and May 1, 12,526 care home residents died after catching the … Read more
The coronavirus killed more people than cancer and dementia combined in April, statistics have revealed. A total of 27,764 people in England and Wales were killed by COVID-19 last month, compared to 10,316 victims of cancer and 9,892 dementia patients. And, between March 2 and May 1, 12,526 care home residents died after catching the … Read more
Clinical trial underway to test if drug for rare bone marrow cancer will keep the sickest coronavirus patients off of ventilators by stopping the virus from copying itself Selinexor, which is made by Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc, is currently approved treat multiple myeloma, a cancer that forms in white blood cells Researchers say the drug blocks a … Read more
Retail giant Amazon has today come under heavy fire for selling scores of books promoting bogus cancer cures. Cancer experts have today accused the billion-pound company of preying on the vulnerable who are desperate for a remedy. More than 3,000 titles are listed on the site under ‘cancer cures’, including ones endorsing unproven CBD oil … Read more
Classic Disney movies like the Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid can help improve the quality of life for cancer patients going through chemotherapy, a study found. Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna played female cancer patients Disney movies on portable DVD players during a controlled clinical trial. After six cycles of chemotherapy, patients … Read more
A woman has told how she developed skin cancer out of a scar left over from her battle with chickenpox as a five-year-old. Louise Thorell, 32, from Ashington in Northumberland, needed three operations to remove the basal cell carcinoma. For years she had been embarrassed by the white scar beneath her right eye from her … Read more
Judge rules woman dying from cancer should be able to leave care home to spend her last days with her family despite coronavirus lockdown rules An elderly woman was allowed to leave an unnamed care home due to her illness The woman, who had terminal cancer, had been living at the home for 10 years … Read more
Hormone drug to keep prostate cancer patients out of hospital as NHS agrees to hand out the treatment before chemotherapy amid Covid-19 crisis Enzalutamide and abiraterone to be ‘first-line’ of therapy for next three months Chemotherapy on hold as hospitals try to keep patients away during pandemic Blood test could diagnose cancer earlier by finding … Read more