Archive for category: Services
28
April
2015

Care in the sun with MediCare

Cancer Focus Northern Ireland teamed up with local MediCare pharmacies to highlight sun safety during Sun Awareness Week (4-10th May). Our Cancer Focus NI Keeping Well vans also visited the pharmacies offering free skin scanning, sun screen samples and advice on how to take care in the sun to staff...

12
November
2014

Top award for cookbook

Our new Well Being Cookbook for cancer patients has come top in the Northern Ireland heat of the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook awards. The unique cookbook was also shortlisted for the Best Health Book in the World and Best Charity Book in the World categories. The Gourmand Awards celebrate glo...

22
September
2014

Karen reminds us to check our necks

To mark thyroid cancer awareness month, which runs in September, Karen Gribbon wants to help Cancer Focus NI raise the profile of the rare disease by telling her story. For signs and symptoms, and other links click here Karen Gribbon (40) and husband Conor (41) have three daughters, Rachel (10), Mol...

01
July
2014

ManAlive is superfit

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...