All Cancer articles – Page 72

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    New test for colon cancer in sight

    2000-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Scientists have identified a potential new screening technique, using skin cells, to identify people with an inherited predisposition to colorectal and other types of cancer .

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    £10m available for cancer waiting-time initiatives

    2000-01-27T00:00:00Z

    The government has announced that £10m will be made available for nationwide initiatives to cut cancer outpatient waiting times to support its two-week waiting-time pledge. Public health minister Yvette Cooper said most hospitals would use the money to streamline booking systems, while others would invest in additional staff and equipment. ...

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    In Brief: Cancer Black Care information centre

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Home Office minister Paul Boateng opened the Cancer Black Care information centre in Hackney, east London, on Friday. The centre, a joint initiative between Cancer Black Care and Macmillan Cancer Relief, aims to inform healthcare professionals about cultural issues in cancer care.

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    Two-week cancer target 'backfires'

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The government's two-week target for cancer referrals has backfired, forcing many women with breast cancer to wait several months to see a specialist, according to new evidence.

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    Appeal Court backs cancer ruling

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Legal briefing

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    Improving cancer services: CHI's first task

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Top of the Commission for Health Improvement's agenda is cancer care. A joint inquiry with the Audit Commission is scheduled for next year, working closely with the government's newly appointed cancer 'czar' Professor Mike Richards.

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    Greater focus on cancer as czar signs up

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn announced he was 'making cancer treatment a personal priority'as he appointed a cancer 'czar' this week.

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    Waiver pays for cancer boost

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    A VAT waiver lay behind health secretary Frank Dobson's announcement of a further boost to cancer services at the Labour Party conference.

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    Cash for cancer dogged by Lottery row

    1999-09-30T00:00:00Z

    A £150m Lottery cash boost for cancer care provoked a row this week as managers called for a more consistent investment programme and a leading cancer specialist accused them of allowing essential machinery to go to 'rack and ruin'.

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    Use of Paclitaxel in ovarian cancer is justified

    1999-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The congratulations offered by Dr Harding to those health authorities yet to make Paclitaxel available to their patients with ovarian cancer are misplaced. The evidence was summarised in Effective Health Care and is set out more fully in the research evidence volume of the Guidance on Commissioning Cancer Services - ...

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    Evidence base still lacking for cancer drug

    1999-08-12T00:00:00Z

    letters

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    In Brief: Screening for ovarian cancer may increasese

    1999-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Screening for ovarian cancer may increasese, according to a pilot feasibility study. The study randomised more than 20,000 postmenopausal women aged over 45 into a screening and a control group. Those screened were offered annual measurements of the cancer antigen, Ca125, and ovarian ultrasonography. The study found that screening identified ...

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    In Brief: US urologists devise way to predict risk of recurrence of prostate cancer

    1999-07-15T00:00:00Z

    US urologists have devised a way of predicting the risk of a recurrence of prostate cancer after a radical prostatectomy. Using a study sample of 1,997 men who had had a radical prostatectomy for localised prostate cancer, the urologists studied the time it took for the concentration of prostate-specific antigen ...

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    Gynaecological cancers

    1999-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Recommendations on the management of gynaecological cancers in the fourth set of national cancer guidance documents are expected to lead to major changes in service organisation and practice.This group includes ovarian, cervical and endometrial cancers - which rank fourth, fifth and sixth respectively among causes of cancer death in women.Despite ...

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    Clarity needed over two-week cancer target

    1999-06-17T00:00:00Z

    letters

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    Two-week waiting target depends on numbers thought to have cancer, not just those who do

    1999-05-20T00:00:00Z

    We recently surveyed GP referrals to secondary care with a differential diagnosis of cancer. We grossed up the number of referrals to annual levels for the whole of Buckinghamshire and compared them to actual annual cancer registration.

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    First past the post: increasing demand for cancer tests

    1999-04-29T00:00:00Z

    An obvious way to dissuade people from resorting to postal tests is to give them fast, efficient access to NHS services.

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    'Astonished' MP pushes for cancer register

    1999-04-29T00:00:00Z

    The government would regularly review NHS cancer care, and publish performance statistics for cancer centres - including survival rates - under a bill proposed by Labour backbencher Paul Marsden.

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    Short cuts Researchers say ovarian cancer checks 'premature'

    1999-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Women should not be screened for ovarian cancer until 'further research provides a better understanding of the potential benefits, harms and risks involved', according to the NHS centre for reviews and dissemination in York. The CRD says that although 'intuitively, it seems common sense that early detection of a cancer ...