This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46261915 By Owain ClarkeBBC Wales health correspondent Wales will become the first UK nation to introduce a new single waiting time target for cancer patients. It is an effort to speed up diagnosis and improve poor survival rates for the 17,000 patients who get it every year. The clock will start…
This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/06/doctors-dont-know-whether-should-encourage-smokers-switch-e/ By Laura Donnelly, health editor One in three medics would not recommend e-cigarettes to smokers, with quarter unsure if they are any safer than smoking, polling suggests. The survey of more than 500 cancer specialists, GPs and nurses found more than half said they did not know enough about vaping to make…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/03/london-hospital-ilford-drops-chemotherapy-nursing-shortage-nhs By Denis Campbell Health policy editor Patients at King George hospital will have to go elsewhere as NHS trust centralises care One of the biggest NHS trusts is to stop providing chemotherapy at one of its hospitals because it has too few specialist cancer nurses to staff the unit. The Cedar Centre at…
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45915431 By Alex TherrienHealth reporter, BBC News Combining a pioneering drug with hormone therapy may extend the survival of some women with advanced breast cancer, a trial suggests. Women who received palbociclib and hormone therapy lived up to 10 months longer than those given hormone treatment alone. It also delayed the time…
This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/01/cancer-patients-promised-diagnosis-within-three-weeks/ By Laura Donnelly, health editor Patients who visit the GP with possible signs of cancer will be promised a diagnosis within three weeks, under radical new Government proposals. The new policy will mean millions more patients will be offered CT and MRI scans via mobile units set up in supermarkets and shopping centres across the country….