Category Archives: Cancer
UK pancreatic cancer care lagging
7 September 2011 Last updated at 04:31
UK among countries worst at tackling pancreatic cancer
A review suggests that although a fifth of patients with this deadly cancer could receive potentially life-saving surgery, only 10% do.
And many with symptoms see a doctor up to five times to get a diagnosis.
In Canada and Australia survival rates are twice that of the UK.
Pancreatic cancer has the poorest five-year survival rate of any cancer in Britain, with just 3% of people alive five years after diagnosis.
Courageous woman struck down by cancer tells how a Hollywood blockbuster movie has inspired her
Blockbuster Hollywood movie inspires Norfolk woman to realise her dreams
Saturday, September 3, 2011
1:54 PM
A courageous woman struck down by cancer has movingly told how a Hollywood blockbuster movie has inspired her to draw up a list of things she wants to do and achieve.
Rachel Lane, 26, who has battled the illness for the last three years, decided to write down her dreams after watching The Bucket List.
In the film, characters played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are both suffering from serious illnesses and draw up a list of the things they had always wanted to do.
CANCER sufferers will be prescribed a spray containing cannabis as a new form of pain relief treatment
Cannabis to be used in hospital treatment
CANCER sufferers will be prescribed a spray containing cannabis as a new form of pain relief treatment.
Experts say the medication – derived from marijuana plants – works by numbing the muscles.
It will be given to terminally-ill hospital patients as part of a ground-breaking trial.
But Sativex does not get users high. Research nurse Sam Jole said: “Patients using the spray do not experience the euphoria associated with illegal recreational use of cannabis.
“It has passed strict tests for quality, safety and efficacy and doctors already prescribe it to other patients.”
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