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A YouTube video of a daughter cutting off her mother’s hair before she loses it to chemotherapy is attracting a lot of attention. The video of Sara and her daughter Lola was filmed as a family keep-sake to help the family come to terms with the diagnosis. However, it had such an impact on them that they were encouraged to put it online. It has now had thousands of viewers and is...
This Saturday is World Cancer Day which aims to raise awareness of cancer in order to improve cancer treatment and diagnosis and enhance access to treatment. In 2008, around 12.7 million new cancer cases were diagnosed worldwide. Of these, it’s estimated that 1.38 million were breast cancer. This accounts for roughly a tenth of all new cancers and a quarter of all female cancer cases.
In the UK alone, in 2008, around 50,000 people were...
Responding to MPs’ rejection of the House of Lords’ amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Commons today (Wednesday 1 February 2012), Liz Carroll, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care said:
'Today’s rejection by MPs of the Lords’ amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill is a devastating blow to the cancer patients we work with who rely on Employment Support Allowance (ESA) to financially support them through their breast...
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