After surgery and radiotherapy for breast cancer, Marie Jones was prescribed a daily pill to reduce the chances of the disease returning. But just three weeks into the planned five-year course of treatment, she ditched the tablets.
‘I know some people might think I’m mad for not doing everything possible to reduce my risk,’ says Marie, 54, a PR consultant, who lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with husband Paddy, 56, a decorator, and has three grown-up children.
‘But my menopause
When David McCallion was told that the swelling in his breasts was harmless and a cosmetic problem, he felt reassured.
Five years later, however, the 59-year-old discovered he was one of a tiny fraction of British men who are diagnosed with a disease that typically strikes women — breast cancer.
The cancer has now spread to other parts of the father-of-two’s body, meaning the disease has entered its secondary stages.
But in contrast to the support given to women battling
Excited about the Greek holiday she and her daughter were about to embark on, Deborah King’s thoughts were fixed on last-minute packing as she got out of the shower.
But as she reached for something in her bathroom cabinet, her eye was caught by an indentation on the underside of her left breast. Checking it, she was horrified to feel a few lumps — one that felt as large as a 10p coin — inside the breast as she probed
1 There were fears in the autumn that an invasion of blood-sucking, insecticide-resistant bedbugs could sweep Britain after an outbreak in which city?
2 Which herb oil was featured in TikTok videos watched by more than one billion people as a possible hair-loss remedy?
3 In November health chiefs recommended children be given a new vaccine for which common, rash-causing illness?
4 A new drug which appears to slow Alzheimer’s sparked
The landscape of cancer treatment has changed significantly since Dr Ned Sharpless, former Director of the National Cancer Institute, completed his world-beating oncology training 20 years ago.
Astonishing medical advancements mean you’re a third less likely to die from the disease than you were 30 years a go. Since 1990, 3.8 million cancer deaths have been averted.
Many forms of cancers – such as lung, skin and breast – that used to be death sentences are now treatable.
Even those
Sarah Ferguson has stressed the importance of ‘turning your cheek to joy’ following a breast cancer diagnosis and mastectomy earlier this year as she opened up about how her loved ones – especially her two daughters – rallied around her in support.
The Duchess of York, 64, was on Lorraine today, as she backed Big Give’s Christmas Challenge – which doubles your donation to a worthy cause for the festive season.
She opened up about the need for optimism after,
Earlier this month the NHS announced that thousands of healthy women in England would be offered a drug that could stop them getting breast cancer – and, in response, my social media went into meltdown.
I am used to being contacted by people searching for medical information. As an NHS GP with an interest in women’s health, I use social media to raise awareness of poorly understood health issues and explain exciting medical discoveries. But the response I received when
Cancer now robs Brits of 14 years of life, according to an analysis branded a ‘wake up call’.
For comparison, this is one extra year than for patients diagnosed in the 1980s. And experts predict it could get even worse.
One leading oncologist said, on the back of the new survival data, it was time ‘to put cancer right back at the top’ of the Government’s agenda. Another demanded it was treated ‘with the same gusto’ as the historic Covid
A California woman diagnosed with breast cancer in her thirties was told by doctors her cancerous lump was just a side effect of stopping her birth control.
Sarah Citron, 33, had her intrauterine device (IUD), a type of birth control in the form of a tiny device inserted into the uterus, removed last November when she and her husband decided to try for a second child. Soon after, she noticed a lump in her armpit.
Mrs Citron, co-founder of Bricoleur
Raven-Symoné opened up about undergoing multiple plastic surgery procedures during her days as a child star.
“I had two breast reductions and lipo before I turned 18,” Raven, 37, revealed on the Monday, August 7, episode of her and wife Miranda Maday’s “The Best Podcast Ever” podcast. “I’ve never said it [before]. I never shared it.”
She went on to note that “there was paperwork involved,” as she was still a minor at the time of her procedures. “My
