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Archive for category: Men’s Health
17
November
2014

No Smoking Day plans unveiled

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

The theme for No Smoking Day 2015 – Proud to be a Quitter – was unveiled at a special event organised by Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Nurses, doctors, midwives, stop smoking specialists and other health professionals attended the event to hear about plans for next year’s No Smoking Day, whic...

08
October
2014

Allister’s cancer story

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Allister Murphy (57), from Newtownabbey, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2008 and has had first-hand experience of the inequality of access to cancer drugs in Northern Ireland. He says: “It was Christmas 2007 at an office party when I noticed a tiny speck of blood in my urine. Years p...

01
July
2014

ManAlive is superfit

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

More than 4,000 men used the potentially life-saving Cancer Focus NI ManAlive service in the Southern Trust in a two year period from 2011 to 2013. The project, first of its kind in Northern Ireland, has been hailed as a huge success and has exceeded all its targets, according to a new independent e...