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Archive for category: Breast Cancer / Women’s Health
12
November
2014

Top award for cookbook

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Our new Well Being Cookbook for cancer patients has come top in the Northern Ireland heat of the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook awards. The unique cookbook was also shortlisted for the Best Health Book in the World and Best Charity Book in the World categories. The Gourmand Awards celebrate glo...

07
November
2014

How Sonia battled breast cancer

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Sonia Patton (46), from Bready, Strabane, is receiving treatment for breast cancer. She is married to Michael (47) and they have three daughters, Molly (16), Eve (6) and Alice (4). A volunteer with Cancer Focus NI, she held a Girls’ Night In and raised a bumper £3,018 for the vital breast cancer res...

05
November
2014

Tyrone cousins’ battle with breast cancer

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Tyrone cousins Yvonne Hendry and Therese O’Gorman, who’ve had double mastectomies, have helped Cancer Focus NI raise £500 for vital breast cancer research by holding a Girls’ Night In. Yvonne, from Sion Mills, and Therese, from Strabane, both opted to undergo the surgery after they discovered...

22
October
2014

Vera’s cancer story

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Young-at-heart Vera Saunderson (72) lives in Carrickfergus. Vera was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2012 and is experiencing first-hand the inequality in accessing life-extending cancer drugs in Northern Ireland.  Vera, a widow with two children and four grandchildren, was faced with the dilemma of...

01
October
2014

October – breast cancer month

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Each October we ask women across Northern Ireland to hold a fun Girls’ Night In with their friends to help raise funds for breast cancer research that we fund at Queen’s University Belfast. For more information and to get your Pink Party Pack call Cancer Focus NI on 028 9066 3281, email ...