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Health and Social Care Bill – how are the changes affecting cancer patients?
Unless you’ve been avoiding the news during the past months, you’ll have heard the phrase ‘NHS reform’ at least a few times over your morning cornflakes, and witnessed the intense political debate this phrase can stir up. This is because … Continue reading →
8 Feb 2012
Recipe for a healthy diet
Eating more healthily and even dropping a few pounds are common resolutions, and after the over-indulgence of Christmas can initially seem very easy to stick to. But with wind, rain and even snow outside, it’s easy to understand why our … Continue reading →
5 Feb 2012
News digest – abiraterone, childhood brain tumours, exercise and more
It was a yet another big week for cancer-related news, and not all of it good. To save you from the task of rummaging through the papers, we’ve summarised all the important stories of the week. If you want to … Continue reading →
4 Feb 2012
Our tenth birthday but more than a century of history
This week marks ten years since the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and the Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) merged to form Cancer Research UK. We’re now the world’s largest independent organisation dedicated to cancer research. Over the past decade, we’ve … Continue reading →
3 Feb 2012
Why today’s prostate drug decision makes no sense
Today the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence – NICE, the body that decides which drugs the NHS should pay for – has given a preliminary ‘thumbs down’ to a new prostate cancer drug, abiraterone (Zytiga), after it failed … Continue reading →
2 Feb 2012