To investigate whether UK websites about cervical cancer screening targeted to the public include (1) information about benefits and risks of screening, possible screening results and cervical cancer statistics, (2) quantitative presentation formats recommended in the risk communication literature and (3...
Cancer: How many people are waiting for treatment?King Charles now joins the thousands of people who are diagnosed with cancer every year.Wednesday 7 February 2024 08:50, UK Cancer This is a modal window. undefined OK Close Modal Dialog The King's treatment has begun within days of his ...
A survey of 572 patients by Pancreatic Cancer UK in 2024 found 82% had struggled to obtain their usual PERT prescription on more than one occasion, almost one in five (19%) had frequently gone without taking PERT and 71% were taking a lower dose than they needed or had altered...
Cancer starts when healthy cell becomes damaged, and starts to multiply out of control. The DNA is copied but there is a mistake. The cell checks whether everything is okay with the DNA. Is it damaged? Has it been copied correctly? Here you can see it's damaged. Usually a cell with ...
These are the UK coronavirus stories you need to know about today. How Cancer Treatment Delays Increase Mortality Risk Each month cancer treatment is delayed increases the risk of cancer death by around 6%-13%, according to a UK and Canadian review of evidence published in The BMJ....
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in Australian men. Large-scale studies have shown that obesity is directly related to the lower risk of low-grade or early prostate cancer, but it is directly related to the increased risk of malignant cancer. Of course, there may be many ...
Smoking greatly increases your risk of lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and many other diseases. It's not surprising that two thirds of smokers want to quit. However, studies have shown that as little as 6% of smokers who try to quit actually succeed. It can take 30 or more attempts...
Prof Griffin says that as the years go by, one would expect COVID-related deaths to creep down, but not enough is being done to prevent COVID fatalities. He adds: "We try and bring down excess deaths from non-communicable diseases like cancer and obe...
3 Cancer patients have a >2-fold increase in the risk of CVD mortality compared with the general population,4 with CVD the second most common cause of death after cancer itself.5 Understanding the patterns of CVD burden in different cancer types is important for appropriate risk stratification,...
your body may fight off the infection on its own. HPV can become active at any point, and in the case of the type of HPV that might be causing cervical cancer you will not notice when (or if) it's become active, because your cervix is tucked away. That's why it’s important to...