Shoppers across Northern Ireland are being encouraged to visit their local Cancer Focus Northern Ireland charity shop on Friday 19 May, as 11 local organisations take part in a high-powered, Apprentice-style volunteering challenge organised by responsible business network Business in the Community N...
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland’s mission is to eliminate cancer where possible and reduce its impact on society. We want cancer incidence rates here to be among the lowest in the world: we want our cancer patients to have among the best outcomes in the world. This is ambitious, but we believe our peo...
Tony Spence (54), a procurement manager from Belfast, is married to Martine and has a grown-up daughter. He started smoking when he was 14 in 1979. He used the Cancer Focus NI workplace stop smoking service last year and is smoke free at last. He says: “I started smoking because it was cool and I wa...
Lee Foster, from Belfast, works at Veolia. With help from Cancer Focus NI he had finally stopped smoking. He says: “I’ve tried many times to stop this horrible habit over the years and maybe got three or four days in before giving up with the same thought in my head, ‘If I can stop for four d...
Gillian Wright (48), from Belfast, is a carer for her husband as he goes through treatment for bowel cancer. She stopped smoking over three months ago with the help of a Cancer Focus NI stop smoking specialist. She says: “I’d been smoking since I was 12 years old. I started because that’s what my fr...
