Category Archives: Cancer

Cancer awareness campervan ‘Daisy’ to tour rural Northumberland

March 31, 2011   Cancer, Uncategorized

Cancer awareness campervan ‘Daisy’ to tour rural Northumberland

Mar 28, 2011 12:00 AM 
Daisy bus

 NHS staff are to tour rural Northumberland in a VW campervan as part of ongoing efforts to raise awareness of the early symptoms of cancer amongst local residents.

‘Daisy’, as the campervan is affectionately known, will be visiting locations across Tynedale, Berwick and Alnwick during April to spread the word on the importance of being clued up on the early cancer symptoms and why keeping an eye on your body and knowing what’s normal and what’s not, should be routine.

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Social care cuts are already biting, say charities

March 30, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Cancer, charities, disability, Multiple Sclerosis, Older care

Social care cuts are already biting, say charities

One in four disabled and older people say their services have been reduced even before the spending cuts next month

Charities found that 52% of older and disabled people were struggling to maintain their independence in the face of cuts.

Nearly one in four disabled and older people have experienced cuts to services and increased charges for care, even before local authority spending cuts are implemented, say charities.

Many families are already being “pushed to breaking point” by reductions to the amount of care they receive, including transport help and respite care, with more than half saying increased charges mean they can no longer afford food and heating.

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Skin Cancer Breakthrough

March 25, 2011   Arthritis, Cancer, health

Cancer Breakthrough After Tadpole Tests

Thomas Moore, health correspondent

A drug discovered with the help of tadpoles could prevent the spread of the deadliest form of skin cancer.

The drug leflunomide is already used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

But after tests on tadpoles scientists have concluded it could be a powerful treatment for malignant melanoma.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia used tadpoles because of an evolutionary link between the pattern of dark spots on their skin and the way melanoma cancer cells spread around the body in humans.

They injected 3,000 compounds into frog embryos and discovered that leflunomide dramatically changed the way the pigment pattern developed on the tadpoles.

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