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My cancer heartbreak: How do you tell your children mummy might die? - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"Can there be a conversation more difficult for a mother than the one where you have to tell your children you have cancer?
The one where you have to prepare them for the fact that you have an illness that might kill you. An illness that, at the very least, will rob you of your hair and your strength, and take you away from them for long periods, while you fight for your survival in hospital."
Thousands of women misled into breast cancer surgery - The Times 1st November 2009
"The Government has been forced to rewrite its advice on breast cancer screening after research showed that thousands of women have been misled into having unnecessary surgery.
Women invited for screening by the National Health Service will be told that some of the cancers detected will be dormant and may never spread to other tissue. "
Thousands of women 'having unnecessary breast surgery' - Daily Mail 2nd November 2009
"Guidance on breast cancer screening is being rewritten after a study found thousands of women were having unnecessary surgery.
Leading cancer experts have said existing Department of Health advice is misleading, inadequate and patronising - and fails to highlight the risks. "
Breast screens blamed for unneeded ops - The Sunday Times 1st November 2009
"Jane Flanders was not aware of the risks involved in being screened for breast cancer when she received her invitation from the National Health Service four years ago.
After being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing extensive surgery, the mother of two now wishes she had not attended. She believes she was the victim of over-diagnosis. "
Breast cancer advice changed amid concern over unnecessary surgery - The Sunday Telegraph 1st November 2009
"Government advice about breast cancer screening has had to be changed after it was discovered thousands of women have undergone unnecessary surgery. "
‘One-stop’ test for breast cancer to end agonising wait for result - The Times 31st October 2009
"A new “one-step” test allows breast cancer patients to be treated directly if their disease has spread, meaning that they no longer have to wait weeks for test results to come back or undergo a second operation.
Surgeons say that thousands of women undergoing surgery could benefit from the rapid diagnostic test, known as the breast lymph node assay. It is already being used at hospitals in Surrey and Portsmouth, and is due to be recommended for implementation across the NHS next year. "
Case study: ‘A great relief to know at once’ - The Times 31st October 2009
"Melloney Poole, 61, underwent surgery to remove a “spidery white mass” of a tumour that had developed on her left breast in January 2007. Thanks to tests being pioneered at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, she was among the first patients in England to receive the all-clear as she woke up from surgery, rather than having to wait anxiously for the news."
30-minute breast cancer test to save lives of thousands - Daily Mail 31st October 2009
"A new instant breast cancer test could drastically shorten the treatment process for thousands of women.\n\nPatients having breast cancer surgery will be given the 30-minute breast lymph node assay, which analyses the underarm glands to check if the cancer has spread. "
Don’t miss your breast screening, says NHS - The Whitehaven News 28th October 2009
"WOMEN are being urged to attend their breast screening appointment as every year around 9,000 across Cumbria fail to turn up.
Health professionals say those 21 per cent could be putting their health at risk. "
Women put health at risk - North West Evening Mail 27th October 2009
"AROUND 9,000 women put their health at risk – by not attending breast screening appointments.
Health officials say 78.9 per cent of 42,700 Cumbrian women aged between 50 and 70 attended an appointment in 2007/08."
Nine thousand Cumbrian women ignore breast cancer screening invite - Carlisle News & Star 27th October 2009
"Nine thousand Cumbrian women are putting themselves at risk of breast cancer by ignoring screening invites.
Latest figures show that every year more than 20 per cent of women in the county invited for routine breast screening appointments do not attend."
Devastated sisters told to have breasts and ovaries removed as four family members are struck down with cancer - Daily Mail 27th October 2009
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Two sisters have been advised to have their breasts and ovaries removed after four women in their family were struck down with cancer.
Pamela Lewis, 56, and Sue Postans, 57, were offered the drastic operations when their two younger sisters and two cousins were diagnosed with the disease."
Losing this brilliant surgeon would be a tragedy for patients - Cumberland News 23rd October 2009
"I am writing at my dismay that Carlisle NHS Trust may lose a brilliant and highly compassionate surgeon that is Mr Obuszko.
As a health service professional and breast cancer survivor, I can honestly say that he is unique and cannot be replaced."
Breast cancer study to be largest in the world - The Bolton News 22nd October 2009
"DOCTORS behind the world’s biggest study on breast cancer are looking for 60,000 women from Greater Manchester.
Everyone who attends the NHS breast screening programme in the county over the next three years will be invited to join the study, being carried out at Wythenshawe Hospital. "
Women denied cancer drug that could extend life - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence proposes to reject a breast cancer drug despite its own rule changes on end-of-life treatments"
The thorny politics of NHS drug approval - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) is admired by governments abroad but regularly provokes an outcry in the UK. It was devised to do a job no health minister wants to do – to decide which new medicines are worth having in the NHS and which are too expensive.
The drug companies have been understandably hostile from the outset. More difficult for Nice has been the fury of patients' groups, which have sometimes gone into battle on the manufacturers' behalf."
Cancer drugs case study: 'I thought I had a year at most … the difference is huge' - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"Jo Waters, 55, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002.
"I had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy," she said. Then she had six cycles of Herceptin. It appeared to work. "I had two years of remission."
NHS watchdog refuses to sanction life-extending cancer drug - The Times 22nd October 2009
"A drug that can extend the life of women with advanced breast cancer has been turned down for use in the NHS by the cost-effectiveness watchdog.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said it plans to block use of Tykerb (lapatinib) in the Health Service after a second review. The decision comes despite rule changes brought in to let people at the end of their lives have the chance of new and often expensive treatments. "
Thousands of breast cancer sufferers to be denied life extending drug - Daily Telegraph 21st October 2009
"Breast cancer sufferers at the end of their lives should be denied a new drug that could give them three extra months, the NHS rationing body has recommended. "
Breast cancer sufferers will be denied life-extending drug championed by Jane Tomlinson - Daily Mail 21st October 2009
"Thousands of patients with advanced breast cancer are to be denied a 'last chance' drug on the NHS.
The Government's rationing body said lapatinib is too expensive even though its makers will provide the first three months' treatment free of charge."
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