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Jake Quickenden is all set to take part on The Real Full Monty On Ice tonight and tomorrow night. The show aims to shine a light on how cancer can invade intimate areas of the body. Jake and his fellow contestants will be attempting to perform dance and skating routine virtually naked.
Thyroid cancer is more common in people who had radiotherapy treatment, particularly in people treated with radiotherapy when they were children, warns Cancer Research UK.
According to the charity, people who have low levels of iodine in their body might have a higher risk of thyroid cancer after exposure to radiation than people with normal iodine levels.
Furthermore, you have a higher risk if you have a family member with thyroid cancer, it adds.
There is also a modifiable risk factor associated with developing thyroid cancer - obesity.
According to Macmillan Cancer Support, it is thought that people who are overweight may have a higher risk of getting thyroid cancer.
Search jobs 14-Dec-2020 TYK2 Identified as a Key Genetic Mechanism of Critical Illness in Covid-19 and as an Important Potential Target for Therapy
Findings published in
Nature support scientific rationale for Sareum’s SDC-1801 development programme in Covid-19 and its recent grant award from UKRI
Cambridge, UK, 14 December 2020 – Sareum Holdings plc (AIM: SAR), the specialist drug development company delivering targeted small molecule therapeutics to improve the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, is pleased to note that a multi-centre analysis of DNA samples from patients with severe forms of Covid-19, including symptoms caused by the over-active inflammatory response (“cytokine storm”), has identified TYK2 as a key causative genetic mechanism and a potential target for therapy.
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Dad-of-two, 27, dies of cancer after begging for MRI scan delayed by Covid crisis as widow tells of agony
Updated: 20 Dec 2020, 8:03
A DAD-of-two who had to beg to get an MRI scan because of the Covid-19 crisis has died of cancer, his family have revealed.
Sherwin Hall, 27, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, went to hospital on March 23 suffering from leg pain - but despite repeated visits, he was initially only given a course of antibiotics.
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Sherwin Hall has sadly passed away from cancer Credit: PA:Press Association
Before his death, Mr Hall said: I kept begging them in April and May to give me an MRI scan, but no-one would listen.