The latest NI Health Survey, published this morning from the Department of Health, shows that just over 1 in 8 people in Northern Ireland still smoke. Today’s results show that 13% of NI adults over 16 smoke, compared to 14% this time last year. Naomi Thompson, Health Improvement Manager at Cancer F...
Cullybackey native, Margaret Hamilton has praised the invaluable support received from local cancer charity, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland for helping her through an incurable cancer diagnosis. Diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in 2018, Margaret was at a loss of where to turn, she searched for support...
To help raise awareness of breast cancer this October, several Councils have lit up their buildings pink at the start of this Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Antrim and Newtownabbey, Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh, Lisburn and Castlereagh, and Mid Ulster Counci...
Following another quarter of crisis-level waiting times, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland warns that cancer waits are continuing to deteriorate, with delays rampant across Northern Ireland. Latest waiting time data shows continued, dangerous delays and inequalities between Trusts The warning follows th...
A new study published today by Lancet Oncology, one of the world’s leading cancer journals, highlights that cancer survivors are often subject to repeated discrimination from financial institutions when trying to access loans, mortgages, health and travel insurance, and other financial packages. Thi...
