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Study Reveals Cancer Costs Average Patient £570 Per Month

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Macmillan Cancer Support, Fuel Bills, Macmillan, Cost-Per-Month, Cancer, Cost of Cancer, Cancer Patients, Recession, Hospital Parking, UK Lifestyle News

Having cancer costs the average patient around £570 a month, research suggests. Four in five cancer patients are forced to pay out the "whopping" ...

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The Loneliness of Cancer Patients Is a Sad Indictment of Society

Ciaran Devane | Posted 13.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Isolation, Macmillan Cancer Support, Loneliness, Cancer Patients, Disease, National Health Service, UK Health, Wellness, Illness, Nhs, Facing the Fight Alone, UK Impact, UK Lifestyle News
Ciaran Devane

One in four people newly diagnosed with cancer in the UK will lack support from family or friends during their treatment and recovery - that's more than an estimated 70,000 people every year not getting help at a time when they need it more than ever. Of those, around a third - an estimated 20,000 people each year - will receive no support whatsoever, facing cancer completely alone.

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Why Cancer Patients Need to Take Control of Their Own Treatment

Endeavour Press | Posted 29.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Politics, Cancer, Business, Medicine, Cancer Patients, UK Lifestyle News
Endeavour Press

For many people, when they are told that they have cancer, it will be the first time that they have confronted their own mortality. Of course, they will have known that they were going to die one day. We all do. But it is probably not something they have dwelt upon, and made peace with.

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Cancer Patients Deserve the Government's Support

Ciaran Devane | Posted 13.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Government, Cancer Patients, Lord Patel, Money for the Disabled, Disability Allowance, UK Politics, Cuts, Government Cuts, Recession, House of Lords, UK Politics News
Ciaran Devane

Asking peers to accept an arbitrary one year time limit for Employment and Support Allowance payments for cancer patients and others to recover from their gruelling treatment and get back behind a desk or onto the factory floor was always going to be a tough sell, and so it proved yesterday evening.

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Cancer Patients Are 'More Worried About Their Finances Than Death'

PA | Posted 11.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Funerals, Macmillan Cancer Support, UK News, Dying, Cancer Research, Cancer, Terminal Illness, Cancer Patients, News, Death, UK News

Cancer patients and their families are 20 times more likely to ask for help about financial issues than death and dying, figures suggest. Four out ...

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Cancer Patients 'Relying On Charity To Pay Fuel Bills'

PA | Posted 26.02.2012 | UK
Read More: Fuel Poverty, Fuel Bills, Macmillan Cancer Support, Macmillan, UK News, Cancer, Cancer Patients, UK News

Cancer patients are becoming increasingly reliant on charity handouts to heat their homes as they struggle to pay rising fuel bills, newly-published f...

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Lifestyle Changes Could Prevent 40% of Cancer Cases In UK Each Year

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 06.02.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: UK News, Smoking, Andrew Lansley, Cancer Research, Cancer, Diet, Obesity, Cancer Research UK, Cancer Patients, Nhs, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News

Making small lifestyle could dramatically reduce people's the risk of cancer, according to new research. Scientists found that four in 10 cancers ...

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Parents Of Children With Cancer 'Forced Into Debt' During Treatment

PA | Posted 05.12.2011 | UK
Read More: UK Health, UK News, Cancer Patients, Family Debt, Cancer-Children, Nhs, UK News

Parents of children with cancer are being forced to borrow money to cover costs while their youngster has treatment, according to research. A surve...

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GPs Failing To Immediately Refer Cancer Patients To Specialists, Says New Report

PA | Posted 24.01.2012 | UK
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A third of patients who have symptoms of cancer visit their GP twice or more before being referred to a specialist, according to a new report. The ...

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Cancer Patients May Have Lost Chance To Father Children After Sperm Samples Accidentally 'Destroyed'

PA | Posted 15.11.2011 | UK
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Health chiefs at a clinic have admitted that frozen sperm samples of a number of patients were mistakenly destroyed. Cardiff and Vale University He...

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Cancer Sufferer Speaks Out Amid Claims Drugs Are 'Futile'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 27.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Pct, UK News, Cancer Drugs, Lancet Oncology, Nice, Primary Care Trusts, Cancer, Cancer Patients, National Institutes of Health, Charities, Nhs, UK News

Malcolm Cole is a Myeloma sufferer, and is being kept alive by a drug called Lenalidomide. A report published in the Lancet Oncology on Monday pro...

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Doctors 'Failing Cancer Patients', Says Expert

PA | Posted 25.11.2011 | UK
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PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Doctors are failing cancer patients "far too often" by not spotting other medical problems caused by their treatment, according t...

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We Must not let the Welfare Reform Bill Penalise Cancer Patients

Ciaran Devane | Posted 12.11.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Macmillan Cancer Support, Welfare State, Cancer Patients, Employment and Support Allowance, Benefits, UK Politics, Liberal Democrats, Welfare Reform Bill, UK Politics News
Ciaran Devane

People in the UK are rightly very protective of their welfare state; I have no doubt that it is this sense of ownership, that it is our welfare system that leads some to condemn those who they feel have broken this agreement between citizen and state.

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