Can you help raise funds for mum with two terminal illnesses? A massive appeal was today launched to help a 36-year-old Exeter mum who is the only person in the world with two rare terminal conditions.
Jo Smith, 36, has a unique combination of diseases and doctors say the odds of suffering both is over five billion to one. She needs a heart and lung transplant to have any hope of...
Men and women in the South West are being called on to clear out their cupboards, dig through their drawers and donate any unwanted items to TK Maxx’s fundraising campaign for Cancer Research UK - Give Up Clothes for Good.
Give Up Clothes for Good is the UK’s largest and longest running charity clothing collection partnership. Since 2004 the campaign has raised £13.5 million for Cancer...
This Valentine's Day a heartfelt invitation is going out to all Devon women urging them to enter Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
Event organisers are asking all mums, grans, sisters, aunts, daughters and friends to join the formidable army of passionate women determined to take on cancer by entering a Race for Life 5k in Plymouth on 22 June.
Local woman, Catherine Fraser has become the first client of new Exeter business Thermalogica to be diagnosed with breast cancer following abnormalities revealed on her Thermal Imaging scans. Thermalogica launched earlier this year, and provides a ground-breaking health screening service to clients at various venues across the South West. Exeter-based business partners Terri Bainbridge and...
Writing in the British Journal of Cancer, the Nottingham researchers say a new test could help doctors tailor treatment better and boost survival rates.
Local business woman Terri Bainbridge, who recently launched Thermalogica, a ground-breaking health screening service with business partner Lisa Portman, gives her first-hand experience of having cancer and how this inspired her to...
Figures released by The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed the trend for increasing survival rates among people diagnosed with cancer has continued.
Statistics for patients diagnosed with one of the 21 most common cancers (which comprise over 90% of all newly diagnosed cancers) during 2007–2011 has revealed that:
A special health and wellbeing event will be held this Friday to provide support to people and their families and carers living with a laryngectomy in Devon and Cornwall.
The event is being held in the Mustard Tree Cancer Support Centre and is being run by the speech and language therapists in the peninsula area (Plymouth, Torbay, Cornwall and Exeter), in conjunction with the Macmillan...
Ladies, it’s time to take the fight to cancer at Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
Let’s face it. Cancer is a nasty piece of work. It will affect one in three of us. It will stroll into our lives and ruin everything without even flinching.
We will beat it though. We’ll wipe that smile off its stupid face. Cancer’s going down. And every single pound we raise pushes it closer...
Today marks the opening of the new Stem Cell Transplant Unit for cancer patients needing protective isolation at Derriford Hospital.
The unit is a further expansion of the transplant service and will mean that patients from Devon and Cornwall will no longer have to travel to Bristol or London for unrelated donor stem cell transplants.
