Harold Desmond Des Shelley Passed away on Wednesday 20 January 2021 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, after succumbing to a long-standing battle with pneumonia, aged 92 years. Des will be greatly missed by his children, Natalie, Harold, Richard and Damir, his sister Cynthia, his grandchildren Alana, Alex, Greg, Andrew, David, Enzo and Rylee, and his great grandchildren Leo and Zach. There will be a private family funeral service. Donations in lieu of flowers are for MIND Andover c/o Arnold Funeral Service 21-23 Little Marlow Road, Marlow SL7 1HA 01628 898866 & haroldshelley.muchloved.com
Robin Arthur “lou” Allum Passed away peacefully on 15th January 2021 aged 86 years. Much loved father of Mike, loving husband of his late wife Pauline. Funeral service to take place at Charlton Park Crematorium, Andover on 17th February at 3.30 PM. Sadly, due to social distancing guidelines, this will be a restricted service. Any enquiries regarding attendance or to view the
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(Singapore January 30, 2021 11:00 p.m. SPT/January 30, 2021 10:00 a.m. EST) Nivolumab monotherapy is an effective treatment option for relapsed malignant mesothelioma (MM), according to research presented today at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer.
Malignant mesothelioma is an intractable cancer, and no phase III trial has yet shown an improvement in overall survival following the standard first line chemotherapy doublet comprising pemetrexed and cisplatin or carboplatin since it was licensed in 2004.
Professor Dean Fennell, chair of Thoracic Medical Oncology at the University of Leicester in collaboration with Professor Gareth Griffiths and his team at the Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, UK, presented results of the Checkpoint Blockade for Inhibition of Relapsed Mesothelioma (CONFIRM) study, funded by Cancer Research UK/Stand Up To Cancer. The investigator-led, placebo-controlled rando
How AI-powered ‘Puff Technology’ can Help Smokers Quit
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New research will observe how smokers use e-cigarettes and help them quit smoking using newly developed ‘puff technology.’
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK launched a new study¹ this week to help understand the smoking habits of e-cigarette users. The research will be used to develop an artificial intelligence program that could be used to help smokers quit tobacco.
The team, led by Emma Ward and Felix Naughton, both doctors from UEA’s Norwich Medical School and School of Health Sciences respectively, will use a monitoring device that attaches to tank-based e-cigarettes and measures how many inhalations a smoker takes and the duration between these ‘puffs.’
Lisa Breeze has created Team Susie to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
Lisa Breeze was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2018, undergoing successful treatment, but unfortunately in last September was told she had cancer again.
The mum-of-two underwent a single mastectomy during the November lockdown and has just started hormone therapy injections to help stop any cancer cells growing.
Lisa, 46, said: “Getting the news that you have cancer at any time is horrendous, but in the middle of a pandemic when you can’t see consultants face to face for all your appointments has just been awful. I was sat in the car park at Flamingo Land on the phone to the oncology consultant being told I would need to have an urgent bone MRI the next day because the results of other tests were bad.”
On the 10th anniversary of her mastectomy, and at the same age as her aunt was when she died, Eleanor said she believed the procedure saved her life.
Eleanor Howie, left, and sister Francesca both had preventative surgery after being told there was a very high risk they would get breast cancer.
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She said: Before Angelina Jolie talked publicly about her faulty BRCA1 gene, there was very little information on preventative surgery, especially for women who were in their early 20s like me and Francesca. Psychologically, preventative surgery was very difficult for me because I had a healthy body and yet I was subjecting myself to this very invasive surgery which would change my life and my relationship with my body forever.