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A cancer diagnosis is perhaps one of the most devastating events which can occur within your lifetime, but the varying forms of cancer which might strike depends very much on your age.

Thousands of women are being urged to attend NHS breast screening appointments as new figures show that, despite a...

With input from a cancer nurse and GP, we look at cancer symptoms for major cancers in the UK, such as prostate, testicular, bowel, lung, skin and brain cancer.

DR PHILIPPA KAYE: I admire Mariella very much but Im afraid we disagree about this one - screening women over 65 could end up doing more harm than good.

MORE than 3,000 women invited for a breast screening in St Helens did not attend in 2023, as new figures show many turn down the potentially…

Objective To explore how the number and type of breast cancers developed after screen detected atypia compare with the anticipated 11.3 cancers detected per 1000 women screened within one three year screening round in the United Kingdom. Design Observational analysis of the Sloane atypia prospective cohort in England. Setting Atypia diagnoses through the English NHS breast screening programme reported to the Sloane cohort study. This cohort is linked to the English Cancer Registry and the Mortal...

Thousands of women are being urged to attend NHS breast screening appointments as new figures today show that, despite a slight increase in uptake in the last year, over a third of women still did not take up the potentially lifesaving offer.

Fewer than two in three women (64.6 per cent) took up their screening appointment in 2022/23, according to NHS England. Breast Cancer Now today warned this is a cause for grave concern.

An NHS England adviser urged women to ‘put their health at the top of their to-do lists’.

THIS week is Cervical Cancer Awareness Week and experts at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) are urging those who have been…