Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has said the ongoing absence of an Executive and Assembly is putting cancer patients and those awaiting a diagnosis at further risk. It follows the publication of the latest NI Cancer Waiting Times Statistics for January – March 2023 from the Department of Health which...
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...
No Smoking Month is fast approaching, and the Public Health Agency (PHA) and Cancer Focus Northern Ireland are encouraging smokers to plan ahead to ‘Make March Your Month to Quit’. Kelly McCartney Health and Social Wellbeing Improvement Manager, with the PHA, said: “March is No Smoking Month and a f...
Cancer Focus NI has announced a £60,000 commitment to fund a two-year research audit into Secondary Breast Cancer in Northern Ireland. After engaging with secondary breast cancer patients and campaigners, Julie Lillis and Ann McBrien, into the urgent need for such research, the charity lobbied polit...
Northern Ireland’s longest running cancer charity; Cancer Focus NI funds three-year research fellow post at the Patrick G. Johnston Centre for Cancer Research. This substantial gift of £90,000, made possible thanks to the generosity of the late Dr Jim Birnie, a Trustee of Cancer Focus since 1985 a...
