More than 46,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year in the UK. A parasite spread by cats may be a factor in causing prostate cancer in men.
Ovarian cancer isn’t as well-known as some other female cancers, yet it is the fifth most common - with more than 7,000 diagnoses in the UK each year.
Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer. Some 47,000 British men are diagnosed with the disease each year, and 11,000 of these cases are terminal. Shockingly one in ten who have the disease had a symptom for more than a year before going to the GP, according to the charity, Macmillan.
A new cancer information app called ‘My Pancreas’ launched on 1 September by the Leicester General Hospital Hepato- Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Unit & Design Agency AGF Studio and will be made available for the public on Apple’s app store for iPhone and iPad.
Supporters of a local cancer charity have helped raise enough funds to see the Urology Department at Leicester General Hospital transformed to allow patients and their families better access and ease when attending for their appointments and treatment.
The Little Greene Paint Company has once again joined forces with national breast cancer charity, Breast Cancer Haven, to promote and support Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
UK scientists from the University of Westminster have confirmed that a new blood test can detect if breast cancer has spread to other parts of the body in a research funded by the charity Against Breast Cancer.
New gene discovery could mean more personalised cancer care.
ServiceMaster staff have raised £1,000 for a Leicestershire cancer charity through a series of fundraising efforts including a ‘stint in the stocks’ for the company’s managers.
Each year, around 6,800 women in the UK are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, making it the fifth most common female cancer, and the biggest gynaecological killer. In comparison to other cancers, such as breast cancer - which affects 50,000 people each year - it is however relatively uncommon.