We are great supporters of the World Cancer Research Fund. They have lots of leaflets that are really useful sources of information on a variety of cancer topics. They produce a newsletter (called ‘informed’) quarterly for health care professionals with a variety of articles on the latest research into aspects of cancer care. In the …
We are all encouraged to walk 10,000 steps every day. Its almost like a mantra, a rule of life. I have been known to be wandering around the streets late at night ‘to get my steps in’. But what is the science behind the 10k? A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine looks at two …
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) recently said that ‘bowel, kidney ovarian and liver cancers are more likely to have been caused by being overweight than by smoking tobacco’. There was an outcry from people who thought that CRUK was ‘fat shaming’ – but actually all they are doing is reporting the facts. CRUK says that being …
How do we resist handing ourselves over to the doctors? I have recently been in hospital (not with cancer but I was pretty ill) and I very nearly gave up. I don’t mean that I gave up trying to keep alive but that I just waited to be told what to do. The lovely tea …
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