Father of four died from cancer aged 60 after life-saving treatment was postponed due to coronavirus leaving him ‘heartbroken’ Pete Sharp, 60, died on April 27 following a lung cancer diagnosis in January He was unable to have surgery as bed was being used to treat Covid-19 patients His daughter said Mr Sharp heartbroken after … Read more
Classic Disney movies like the Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid can help improve the quality of life for cancer patients going through chemotherapy, a study found. Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna played female cancer patients Disney movies on portable DVD players during a controlled clinical trial. After six cycles of chemotherapy, patients … Read more
Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has died at the age of 73, Billboard has confirmed. In a statement, his bandmate Ralf Hütter announced: ‘The very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday.’ In February, the … Read more
A woman has told how she developed skin cancer out of a scar left over from her battle with chickenpox as a five-year-old. Louise Thorell, 32, from Ashington in Northumberland, needed three operations to remove the basal cell carcinoma. For years she had been embarrassed by the white scar beneath her right eye from her … Read more
Judge rules woman dying from cancer should be able to leave care home to spend her last days with her family despite coronavirus lockdown rules An elderly woman was allowed to leave an unnamed care home due to her illness The woman, who had terminal cancer, had been living at the home for 10 years … Read more
Hormone drug to keep prostate cancer patients out of hospital as NHS agrees to hand out the treatment before chemotherapy amid Covid-19 crisis Enzalutamide and abiraterone to be ‘first-line’ of therapy for next three months Chemotherapy on hold as hospitals try to keep patients away during pandemic Blood test could diagnose cancer earlier by finding … Read more
Simple blood test could identify people at greater risk of developing cancer by detecting whether they have abnormally small red blood cells Microcytosis is linked to genetic conditions that impact blood’s haemoglobin It has also been linked to iron deficiency which is a feature of some cancers Experts examined anonymised patient records to see who … Read more
Maria Menounos is urging the public not to dismiss symptoms as merely ‘work stress’ as she did prior to her brain tumor diagnosis. The 40-year-old Sirius XM host revealed in July 2017 that she had a mass the size of a golf ball and that she’d undergone surgery to remove it. In a recent appearance … Read more
Scientists are in a race against time to test both existing drugs and experimental therapies in the hope one of them can slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Among those are medications used to treat cancer, high blood pressure, gout, heartburn and depression. Researchers believe the pills may help with a variety of conditions … Read more
Scientists may have found a way to stop a highly aggressive and deadly pediatric brain cancer from growing in its earliest stages. In a study conducted on mice, researchers discovered a gene that helps a type of brain cancer known as glioblastoma turn other brain cells cancerous. But by injecting molecules that target the gene, it … Read more