http://understandingcancer.co.uk Cancer Information, Evening Classes and Courses in Aberdeenshire. Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:43:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://understandingcancer.co.uk/2009/08/18/do-you-know-a-sign-or-symptom-of-cancer/ http://understandingcancer.co.uk/2009/08/18/do-you-know-a-sign-or-symptom-of-cancer/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:38:44 +0000 Avril http://understandingcancer.co.uk/?p=1037 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 [...]]]> http://understandingcancer.co.uk/2009/08/18/do-you-know-a-sign-or-symptom-of-cancer/feed/ 2 http://understandingcancer.co.uk/2009/08/14/things-that-you-should-get-checked-out/ http://understandingcancer.co.uk/2009/08/14/things-that-you-should-get-checked-out/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:59:11 +0000 Avril http://understandingcancer.co.uk/?p=1026 It’s not often that a news story has me printing off several scientific articles and reaching for my calculator, but a new study published today caught my interest. It is called “Alarm Symptoms and identification of non-cancer diagnoses in primary care: cohort study” and was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).  It was [...]]]> http://understandingcancer.co.uk/2009/08/14/things-that-you-should-get-checked-out/feed/ 1