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Huntly – Pink Pamper Evening – Friday 9th October 2009

October is “Breast Cancer Awareness Month”, which was started in the 1980′s by the drug company Astra Zeneca, the company that makes Tamoxifen. Breast Cancer Awareness month is used to raise money for breast cancer charities and increase awareness of the disease.

In Huntly, on Friday October the 9th at 7pm, you can come [...]

Gordon Brown – Cancer in the UK

The Cancer Research UK website has an “interview” between the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and their Cheif Executive Harpal Kumar. You can read the interview here “PM Gordon Brown speaks exclusively to Cancer Research UK CEO Harpal Kumar“.

I’ve posted it here because I thought that you might be interested to read what Gordon [...]

Are over 55′s getting the message?

The BBC are reporting a survey, carried out by the World Cancer Research Fund called “Over 55s – Less Aware on Cancer“. In the survey, 2,000 people were asked what things increase your risk of cancer. They were looking for answers like being overweight, not taking regular exercise, drinking alcohol and having a poor [...]

Marie Curie Adverts

The nursing charity “Marie Curie Cancer Care” are running a new series of adverts in September. The adverts encourage you to talk to your GP or district nurse if you are terminally ill (dying) from cancer. Marie Curie nurses usually work with people in their last 3 months of life, although there is no [...]

Pancreatic Cancer – Why is it so difficult to treat?

I’ve been meaning to write a blog post about pancreatic cancer for a long time. However, I don’t believe in reinventing the wheel! In this months “Science Update Blog” from Cancer Research UK there is an excellent post called “Why don’t researchers know what causes pancreatic cancer“. This article was posted on the 6th [...]

Do you know a sign or symptom of cancer?

Yesterday Cancer Research UK published a survey of 4,000 people that showed that 1/7 people didn’t know one sign or symptom of cancer. This seems a little hard to believe, you would think that most people realise a lump could be a sign of cancer. However people weren’t given a list to choose from [...]

Scottish Health Statistics – Figures for 2008

Last week the Scottish Government released statistics on premature death, these focused on coronary heart disease (which includes heart attacks), stroke and cancer. The population of Scotland is about 5 million,the estimated population for 2008 is 5, 168, 500.

In Scotland, 2008 there were:

8,841 deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD).

5,367 [...]

Techfest 2009 – Aberdeen Cancer Talk

You may know that Aberdeen runs a major festival of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics called “TechFest”, it takes place from the 11th to the 28th of September.

There are loads of different events on every aspect of science and technology (not just biology) you can find out more on the TechFest website where [...]

Understanding Cancer Wordle

A short post tonight, I am still recovering from the Relay for Life! I have created a “wordle” for the “News” section of this website. A wordle is a picture made up of different words that appear in a website (in this case Understanding Cancer, although you could use it for any words, or [...]