Cancer Focus NI warmly welcomes the Department of Health’s consultation on banning smoking in cars when children are present. Gerry McElwee, Head of Cancer Prevention at Cancer Focus NI, said: “Cancer Focus NI has campaigned on tobacco issues for many years and is working towards a tobacco-fre...
Young Armagh woman Grainne O’Neill is pulling out all the stops to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer in memory of her mother Anne who lost her battle with the disease over two years ago in 2014. Grainne has raised an impressive £40,000 for charities like Cancer Focus Northern Ireland who work wit...
Roisin Foster, Chief Executive of Cancer Focus Northern Ireland, has welcomed the Bengoa report’s key recommendations and the Health Minister’s resolve to implement them. “It’s very clear that our Health and Social Care service needs major reform in order to be sustainable for the future, so it’s cr...
Julie Scates (42), from Castlereagh, who lives with her partner Steve Richie, has BRCA 1 and has advanced cancer. She has three children, Courtney (24), Cameron (18) and Leah (12). She says: “I was diagnosed with stage 4 primary peritoneal cancer (PPC), a form of ovarian cancer, when I was 39. It ha...
Debra Rice (44), a legal secretary from south Belfast, is a BRCA 1 carrier. She is married to Philip (47) and they have a daughter, Emma (8). She says, “My dad’s two sisters died at a young age from breast and ovarian cancer so I’ve been attending a family history clinic at Belfast City Hospital for...
