Macklin Group have launched their latest charity partnership with leading local cancer charity, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland, a familiar organisation to the group with their Malone Boutique Hotel neighbouring the charity’s headquarters on Eglantine Avenue in Belfast. The family-run group has been e...
MLAs at Stormont have heard from former cancer patients that they face significant discrimination when applying for insurance and mortgages, despite being cancer-free for more than five years. The evidence was presented at today’s All-Party Group on Cancer, supported by Cancer Focus NI and cha...
Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has visited the site of the new Cancer Focus Northern Ireland Support Centre in Enniskillen to review progress ahead of its scheduled opening this spring. The centre, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, will provide nurse-led support services to individuals and fa...
This Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (21–28 January), the Public Health Agency (PHA) is reminding women of the importance of attending for cervical screening when invited. Katrina Jones from Belfast went for her routine cervical smear test in 2022 and after further investigations, found out she had...
A new study funded by Cancer Focus Northern Ireland and published earlier this week in JAMA Network Open estimates there are around 250 patients diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer annually in Northern Ireland, and almost 1,000 patients are currently living with the disease. This landmark study...
