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Research is essential for new tests to help the 16,700 people diagnosed with cancer each year in the North East
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Dr Debbie Hicks is a Newcastle University Research Fellow of Molecular Survivorship. (Image: Cancer Research UK)
Around 16,700 people are diagnosed with cancer each year in the North East, highlighting how essential research is to find gentler treatments and new tests.
Dr Debbie Hicks is a Newcastle University Research Fellow of Molecular Survivorship. Her main area of research is childhood brain tumours, working to improve outcomes for survivors of medulloblastoma and other childhood cancers.
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Husband and wife Barry and Sue from Wigan, who have been impacted by cancer, are pledging a gift to help others
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Husband and wife Barry and Sue from Wigan have been impacted by cancer (Image: Laura Ashman)
Around 40,000 people are diagnosed with cancer each year in the North West . The same amount of people could fill the Manchester Arena to capacity, twice over.
That is why research into finding new, kinder treatments and improved tests is vital. And research requires funding.
Husband and wife Barry and Sue from Wigan have been impacted by cancer – now they’re pledging a gift in their Will to Cancer Research UK, to help more people in the future.
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Professor Duncan Baird is the research lead at the Division of Cancer and Genetics at Cardiff University
Professor Duncan Baird is the research lead at the Division of Cancer and Genetics at Cardiff University.
He and his team are studying special DNA structures found inside our cells, known as telomeres, and the role they play in cancer.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a long-serving and “brave” school teacher who died from coronavirus following a courageous battle with cancer. Sarah Williams, aged 50, worked as a teacher and senior leader at Holland Haven Primary School, in Primrose Road, for 13 years. She had fought lung cancer for nearly two years but tragically died last month after contracting Covid-19, despite the fact she had been shielding. Sue Bardetti, headteacher at Holland Haven Primary School, has now paid tribute to her former friend and respected colleague. She said: “Quite honestly, I have never met anyone as positive as Sarah and she put up such a brave fight every day.