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Scheme is the first of its kind in the UK gives choice to terminally ill
More terminally-ill patients have chance to die at home
By SUE GYFORD
Published on Friday 14 October 2011 12:05
MORE terminally-ill patients are to have the opportunity to die at home thanks to a new scheme aimed at speeding up their discharge from hospital.
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.
