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28
April
2015

Focus on workers’ sun safety

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Cancer Focus Northern Ireland and the Public Health Agency launched a new sun safety package for outdoor workers in April 2015. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in Northern Ireland, with around 3,550 cases every year. Farmers, builders, grounds staff and postal workers are jus...

28
April
2015

Care in the sun with MediCare

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

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...

20
March
2015

Support access to drugs meetings

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Cancer Focus NI is urging local people to attend their local public meeting to voice their opinions on how to improve access to specialist drugs. The DHSSPS has organised a series of meetings across Northern Ireland (details below) intended to provide an opportunity for public discussion of the rece...

11
March
2015

Teen ‘proud to be a quitter’

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Teenager Rachel Armstrong joined forces with Cancer Focus NI on No Smoking Day, March 11, to urge smokers to kick the habit. The 15-year-old, who started smoking when she was just 10, says she is proud to be a quitter. “I had a few older friends who smoked and that where I got my first cigarette. So...

06
March
2015

Wine Inns raises £13,877 for us

By: Cancer Focus Fundraising Events Team0

Wine Inn employees and customers have raised a magnificent £13,877 during a very successful one year corporate partnership with local cancer charity, Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Maeve Colgan, Head of Income Generation at Cancer Focus NI, said: “We would like to say a massive thank you to all the...