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Study blames two genes for aggressive brain cancer - BBC Health News 27th December 2009
"Scientists have discovered two genes that appear responsible for one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer.
Glioblastoma multiforme rapidly invades the normal brain, producing inoperable tumours, but scientists have not understood why it is so aggressive."
Long-term use of mobile phones 'may be linked to cancer' - Daily Telegraph 24th October 2009
"Long-term use of mobile phones may be linked to some cancers, a landmark international study will conclude later this year. "
Department of Health under pressure to increase precautions over children’s mobile phone use - Daily Telegraph 24th October 2009
"Pressure is increasing on the Government to increase public health warnings over mobile phones as more fears emerge over their possible risks. "
Carlisle gran dies from cancer week after winning lottery - Carlisle News & Star 20th October 2009
"A Carlisle grandmother who was told by an on-call doctor that she had swine flu was actually suffering from terminal cancer."
Woman recovers from cancer after doctors end treatment - Daily Telegraph 5th October 2009
"A woman who was sent home to die with five brain tumours is celebrating an amazing recovery, one year later. "
A life-saving op? No thanks, doctor, I'm far too scared - Daily Mail 22nd September 2009
Sarah has a brain tumour, yet she's too afraid of surgery to have it cut out. Like thousands, she has a medical phobia so severe she'd rather risk death.
Lying on a hospital trolley, minutes before an operation to remove her brain tumour, Sarah Rommell was gripped by a sense of rising panic.
Baby with 'untreatable' brain cancer sent to a hospice to die makes miracle recovery - Daily Mail 4th September 2009
At just four months old, Maisey Fishwick was diagnosed with untreatable brain cancer and sent to a hospice to die.
Doctors told heartbroken mother Emma all they could do was relieve the pain as she lived out her short life.
But just days before Maisey was expected to die, child cancer specialist Eddy Estlin saw a ray of hope for the child and sent her back to hospital for care.
The truly inspiring story of TV vet Michael Payne who faced the news he was dying of a brain tumour by starting a family - Daily Mail 25th August 2009
TV VET Michael Payne was 28 when he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Given two years to live, Michael, a regularon This Morning, defied all odds by surviving for another 13 before finally losing his battle in February 2006.
'They took out 95% of my tumour' - BBC Health News 17th July 2009
Alison Moss considers herself a very lucky lady.
Last year doctors discovered she had a grade-three brain tumour. But today, after surgery to remove 95% of the tumour, she is much recovered and her symptoms easing.
Man who suffered hiccups for two years diagnosed with cancer - Daily Telegraph 13th July 2009
Christopher Sands, who has suffered from a constant bout of the hiccups for more than two years, has been diagnosed with a brain tumour, it has been disclosed.
At 19, Meg was told her brain tumour was inoperable. Nonsense, said her mother, I won't let my daughter die - Daily Mail 14th July 2009
For a bridegroom to feel blessed on his wedding day is not unexpected. But as Josh Hill rose to toast his new bride's family and friends, he found himself choked with emotion.
Not surprising. It is almost impossible to put into words how much he and his bride Meg owe not just to her family but to one man in particular: an American-based surgeon.
Appeal for funds to fight curse of brain tumours - The Independent 3rd July 2009
Brain tumours have become the biggest cause of death among young cancer patients, but the disease receives only a small fraction of the funding spent on researching other forms of cancer.
Some 16,000 people in Britain are diagnosed with a brain tumour each year and more men under the age of 45 and more women under the age of 35 will die of the disease than from any other cancer, according to a report out today.
Bid for £20m proton therapy unit - BBC Health News 26th May 2009
A hospital on Merseyside is bidding to become the first centre in the UK to provide specialist treatment for brain tumours and rare cancers.
Plans have been put forward to create the National Centre for Proton Therapy - a £20m centre at the Wirral's Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology.
Clatterbridge cancer hospital bids to offer pioneering proton therapy to treat brain tumours - Liverpool Echo 26th May 2009
MERSEYSIDE'S world-class cancer hospital is bidding to become the first in the country to provide pioneering treatment to blitz children's brain tumours.
High-energy proton therapy can tackle tumours other sophisticated NHS treatments cannot reach, but is not yet available in the UK.
It has meant patients have had to fund-raise to go abroad to have a better chance of survival.
£40m Mersey bid for leading cancer centre at Clatterbridge in Wirral - Liverpool Daily Post 26th May 2009
MERSEYSIDE’S world-class cancer hospital is bidding to become the first in the UK to provide pioneering treatment to blitz children’s brain tumours.
High-energy proton therapy can tackle tumours other sophisticated NHS treatments cannot reach, but it is not yet available in the UK.
Girl, 8, survives 10 tumours - The Sunday Telegraph 29th March 2009
An eight-year-old girl has been given the all-clear after beating 10 brain and spine tumours.
Wythenshawe Hospital apologises to former nurse - Altrincham Messenger 25th March 2009
WYTHENSHAWE Hospital has apologised for discharging a patient who was later found to have a brain tumour, without giving her a scan – because both its scanners were out of order.
Pat Morris, a leading health campaigner from Altrincham and a former nurse, was also sent home without any medication to control seizures she was suffering.
'Broken foot was brain tumour sign' - BBC Health News 22nd March 2009
Within minutes of a heavy fall in the playground Charlotte Davidson was up and running.
But two weeks later she collapsed while she was playing on a trampoline, and said her foot was moving on its own.
Revolutionary proton therapy cures boy, 5, of brain tumour - Daily Mail 25th February 2009
A boy of five has become the first British child to undergo a revolutionary procedure to cure a brain tumour.
But Alex Barnes had to travel to the U.S. to undergo proton therapy treatment, which is unavailable here.
Cancer therapy boy gets all-clear - BBC Health News 21st February 2009
A Leicestershire boy who went to the US for pioneering therapy has been given the all-clear by doctors.
Five-year-old Alex Barnes, from Fleckney, travelled to Florida in October last year for surgery and proton therapy on a brain tumour.
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