All Cancer articles – Page 73
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Short cuts Colorectal cancer screening pilots announced
Ministers have announced colorectal cancer screening pilot services for England and Scotland. The English site is in Coventry and Warwickshire. The Scottish pilot is in Tayside, Grampian and Fife. The project will run for two years, with screening kits sent to patients' homes, before being sent to laboratories for testing. ...
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Cancer and heart disease are preventable - and both are amenable to public health action
Cancer and heart disease are indeed diseases of old age, as Steve Ainsworth suggests, but he seems unaware they are both preventable and amenable to public health action. Such action is ultimately about political change outwith healthcare systems.
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Cancer trials: money is not only currency of success
Alan Maynard's article ('Looking Askance', 19 November), on the cost-effectiveness of cancer services, was disappointing in its narrowness of approach.
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Short cuts: Trusts told to set up 'robust' breast cancer systems
Trust chief executives have been told to put 'robust systems in place' to track urgent referrals from GPs involving suspected breast cancer. Trusts will also be expected to monitor referrals from February to 'test the new reporting instructions' and provide updates for health authorities on progress towards meeting the government's ...
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Short cuts: Hayman details £10m of colorectal cancer projects
Junior health minister Baroness Hayman has unveiled details of how £10m set aside for improving colorectal cancer services will be spent. Examples include £104,000 for a 'fast-track' clinic in Eastbourne and £36,000 for Birmingham Women's Hospital to investigate genetic links in the disease, which kills 20,000 people a year. Health ...
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HAs and trusts failing to act on guidelines for breast cancer
English health authorities and trusts are failing to meet NHS Executive guidelines on breast cancer treatment according to a survey commissioned by MPs.
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Cancer care on camera
George Cathro is making a television series on cancer care at the Western General Hospitals trust in Edinburgh. The project was partly inspired by personal experience - both his parents died of cancer.
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Cancer framework 'fails to deliver equal access'
The cancer framework now being used as a model for national standards in other services is failing to deliver equal access to care, according to the MP who chairs the Commons all-party group on cancer.
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Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the third most common cause of death in the UK - around 80 per cent of patients die within a year of diagnosis. New guidance says the focus should be on prevention, palliative care and specialist teams. Arabella Melville and colleagues repo
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Calls to widen availability of cancer drug
Doctors and MPs have urged the government to extend the availability of a drug which lengthens the life expectancy of women with ovarian cancer.
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In Brief: Bowel cancer
An extra £10m is to be made available to treat people with bowel cancer, health secretary Frank Dobson said this week.
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Bart's is saved as cardiac and cancer centre
Health secretary Frank Dobson said this week he had 'saved' St Bartholomew's Hospital by announcing it will become a specialist centre for cardiac and cancer care.