In a new collaboration, NIPANC has partnered with Cancer Focus NI to improve the turn-around time for counselling appointments and enhance existing services to patients and their families in NI facing a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Susan Cooke Trustee of NIPANC said: “This will be very welcome ne...
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has identified Enniskillen as the location for its first new regional support centre to support people affected by cancer. It follows the publication of the charity’s new five-year strategy last week which revealed plans to open five regional support centres acros...
Northern Ireland’s local cancer charity, Cancer Focus NI, has opened a brand-new store in Lisburn city centre. The new retail store, based at 41-43 Market Square South in the city centre, comes just days after the charity launched its new five-year strategy which aims to bring cancer care and suppor...
Holywood man Tim Page, who is married to Ruth and has two sons, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 1984 at just 20 years of age. Since then he has had blood cancer four more times and had been through exhaustive treatments. In December 2017, he had a donor transplant and is recovering well. He...
Larne woman Carolyn Tweed is preparing for the challenge of a lifetime in Arctic conditions in memory of her beloved sister and best friend Rhonda who lost her battle with cancer in 2016. Carolyn is taking on the Arctic Trek in northern Sweden to raise money for Cancer Focus Northern Ireland...
