No Smoking Month is fast approaching, and the Public Health Agency (PHA) and Cancer Focus Northern Ireland are encouraging smokers to ‘Make March Your Month to Quit’. With smoking being the single most entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death, in Northern Ireland it is responsi...
Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has submitted a response to the consultations on obesity prevention and management, presented by the NI Department of Health. The consultations related to a strategic framework to prevent the harms caused by obesity and a regional obesity management service. “Obesity ca...
Charity calls for ambitious new Skin Cancer Prevention Strategy to ease the burden on the health service, as half of cases are preventable Cancer Focus Northern Ireland has launched new research showing that the cost of skin cancer diagnosis and treatment in Northern Ireland is over £21m a year, and...
Breast Cancer patients are set to benefit from a £40,000 grant made by health charity Walk the Walk to Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Walk the Walk is best known as the organiser of the iconic MoonWalk London, when thousands of women and men walk overnight marathons through the city’s streets, weari...
Richard Spratt, Chief Executive of Cancer Focus Northern Ireland, was invited to speak at the Policy Forum for Northern Ireland on the topic of “Next Steps for Cancer Care in NI.” Richard was part of a panel discussion on the “Long-term goals for improving cancer outcomes.” ...
