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11
March
2015

Teen ‘proud to be a quitter’

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Teenager Rachel Armstrong joined forces with Cancer Focus NI on No Smoking Day, March 11, to urge smokers to kick the habit. The 15-year-old, who started smoking when she was just 10, says she is proud to be a quitter. “I had a few older friends who smoked and that where I got my first cigarette. So...

17
February
2015

Drugs fund report welcomed

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Proposed changes to NI’s current drug approval process have been welcomed by Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Following the charity’s Equal Access campaign for the same access to cancer drugs for Northern Ireland patients as those living in England, Health Minister Jim Wells announced a review in May...

02
February
2015

Minister’s go ahead on plain packs 

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Local cancer charity Cancer Focus Northern Ireland is delighted by the Health Minister’s announcement to support the introduction of standardised cigarette packaging in Northern Ireland. Today the Health Minister Jim Wells confirmed that Northern Ireland will be included in UK-wide regulations on st...

13
November
2014

Latest news on Equal Access to drugs

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

A delegation from Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has met with the panel set up to carry out an evaluation of the Individual Funding Request (IFR) process. The IFR process is intended to provide access to unapproved specialist drugs for patients where there is an agreed clinical need. These drugs are...

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...