Category Archives: Cancer
Keeping Abreast’s Norwich awareness day at Chapelfield
Monday, October 15, 2012
11:27 AM
A Norfolk breast cancer charity will be offering shoppers advice and raising awareness about the work it does at a city shopping centre this week.
On Friday, October 19, staff and volunteers from Norfolk-based charity, Keeping Abreast, will be at Chapelfield Shopping Centre all day to help raise awareness of the work they do with women throughout the UK with breast cancer.
Visitors to their trademark bright pink stand will have the opportunity to meet with patients who have been through or are currently battling breast cancer, and have had or are about to undergo surgery, and talk to them about their experiences.
Sharing a cuppa to help cancer battle
Published on Monday 1 October 2012 08:19
SOUTH Shields MP David Miliband took time out to join children affected by cancer at a Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.
The event was hosted by Macmillan Young Carers’ service at Ridgeway Children’s Centre in Park Avenue, South Shields.
Former Foreign Secretary Mr Miliband said: “I am delighted to meet the young people and their families – Macmillan does a first-class job, and I am pleased to support its efforts in raising much-needed money for a very worthwhile charity.”
The young carers’ service supports children from five to 18, who are caring for a parent with cancer.
Sarah Raistrick, young carers’ service awareness co-ordinator, who organised the coffee morning, said: “We’re delighted that Mr Miliband took time out of his busy schedule to help support both the children we work with and Macmillan Cancer Support.”
It was one of many coffee mornings taking place throughout the borough.
Four-star treatment for patients on the NHS
26 September 2012
The Cotton Rooms is the first of its kind in the NHS and has been built and funded by University College London Hospital’s charity.
The 35-bed hotel near Tottenham Court Road offers all the comforts of a good hotel — including fluffy towels, slippers and internet access — without charge.
Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy on a daily basis will benefit as well as others who are undergoing tests at UCLH.
In the past, many patients have either endured long journeys home every night or stayed on a noisy ward or in nearby hotels alongside ordinary paying guests.
Now patients can receive hospital treatment during the day then check into the Cotton Rooms afterwards.
The idea is that people can live normal lives but with medical help on standby when needed.
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