2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (343+ words) A Kent nurse is campaigning for changes to routine mammogram screening policies to "spare families heartaches". Gemma Reeves, who works at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in Margate, is calling for the age of mammogram screenings to…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (522+ words) The NHS has urged people in their 50s to test for bowel cancer in response to "low numbers" taking part in screening. Official figures from NHS England suggest a little over half of 54-year-olds completed at-home testing kits last year, compared…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (885+ words) When Alan Wake was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2025, it confirmed what he already knew in his own mind. The father-of-two had already been through the disease twice - albeit it was his wife who had been affected. Julie had…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (329+ words) A group of women from Medway who have all been affected by breast cancer are training for a triathlon which they say will present a different type of challenge. Team Phoenix Foundation, which was started 10 years ago as a support…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (603+ words) A man who was told he had at least a year to live after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour has said he still hopes to receive experimental treatment abroad. Jack Rawding-Revell, from Glossop in Derbyshire, said he started…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (471+ words) A woman who set up a dragon boat team after undergoing treatment for breast cancer said the sport had helped her to forget about the gruelling reality of the disease. Ann Johnson, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, is…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (512+ words) Ten years ago, Mel de Lange was a busy working mum, running a market intelligence agency while also bringing up her two children. Then, in 2016, came the devastating news that her older sister Becca's breast cancer had not only returned…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (554+ words) Lesley Goodburn has spent more than a decade encouraging people to pay attention to the warning signs of cancer, since the death of her husband. But when it came to her own diagnosis, she said it was her dog, Gertie,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1117+ words) An award-winning cancer care centre is on course to lose most of its support staff because its main funders have had their own money cut. The Southport and Formby Cancer Information and Support Centre sees about 800 new people a year…...