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“Volunteering with Cancer Voices helped me find the confidence I had before my cancer”

2024-12-05T09:24:13+00:00

When Dr. Farida Anderson volunteered as an NHS Cancer Voices patient representative with Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, she thought it would be a chance to help other patients like her. The 61-year-old, from Prestwich, has been able to share her experience of what it is like to go through breast cancer with healthcare professionals so that they can make improvements to services. Farida is the face of a new campaign to encourage more people affected by cancer to volunteer as patient or carer representatives But she also found signing up as a patient representative has [...]

“Volunteering with Cancer Voices helped me find the confidence I had before my cancer”2024-12-05T09:24:13+00:00

Thousands of cancers caught early through NHS lung checks including over 700 in Greater Manchester

2024-11-08T08:13:42+00:00

More than 700 people in Greater Manchester - have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier thanks to an innovative NHS initiative, which uses mobile scanning trucks to visit local communities. The NHS Targeted Lung Health Check programme is the biggest initiative in NHS history aimed at improving early lung cancer diagnosis, and is specifically targeted at areas of the country with the highest rates of lung cancer. Dr Haval Balata, Consultant Respiratory Physician at Wythenshawe Hospital and Responsible Clinician for the Greater Manchester Targeted Lung Health Check Programme stands in front of the Targeted Lung Health Check [...]

Thousands of cancers caught early through NHS lung checks including over 700 in Greater Manchester2024-11-08T08:13:42+00:00

Greater Manchester leads national roll out of a new AI solution to help accelerate lung cancer diagnosis

2024-11-06T06:54:10+00:00

Hospitals in Greater Manchester are to begin using an new AI (artificial intelligence) technology which will help doctors to detect diseases, including lung cancer, quicker.  The new technology will be rolled out at seven NHS Trusts across the region over the next few months as part of a partnership between Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, Greater Manchester Imaging Network and global health tech firm Annalise.ai.  PHOTO SHOWS: Annalise AI Chest X-ray solution detecting potential lung cancer findings. The technology has now gone live at Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Manchester NHS Foundation Trust [...]

Greater Manchester leads national roll out of a new AI solution to help accelerate lung cancer diagnosis2024-11-06T06:54:10+00:00

Change NHS: a health service fit for the future

2024-10-23T16:32:36+00:00

The biggest ever national public conversation about the future of the NHS has just launched. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the NHS want to hear your experiences of the NHS and your ideas to help them change it. NHS, Local Authority and Third sector staff are working harder than ever to get services back on track, to get waiting lists down and consistently deliver the best care. We know change is needed. But we also know that many of the solutions we need are already here, working somewhere in the NHS [...]

Change NHS: a health service fit for the future2024-10-23T16:32:36+00:00

Lung MOTs come to more parts of Rochdale including Littleborough and Milnrow

2024-10-21T16:07:45+00:00

Smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at a number of doctors’ surgeries in Rochdale, Milnrow and Littleborough will be invited for a lung health check this autumn. The quick, free checks can help find lung cancer at an early stage – before you might have any symptoms - when it is much more treatable and help save lives. Most visitors to the lung health checks will get reassurance that everything is OK or be referred to get help to stop smoking. The will checks are available to current or former cigarette or [...]

Lung MOTs come to more parts of Rochdale including Littleborough and Milnrow2024-10-21T16:07:45+00:00

“You’ve got to learn how to check your breasts”

2025-05-19T17:16:46+00:00

A mum-of-two from Old Trafford wants everyone to know how to spot potential signs of breast cancer and to get help early. Michelle Griffith who has had breast cancer is sharing her experience to help breakdown taboos and get more people to go and get help if they are worried. The single mum, who has two grown up graduate daughters Kaziah, 31, and O’Cian, 27, was diagnosed with a very early form of breast cancer known as ductal cell carcinoma in situ in January 2017 when she was 44. Artist Michelle Griffith, a former breast cancer [...]

“You’ve got to learn how to check your breasts”2025-05-19T17:16:46+00:00

Lung MOTs come to Atherton and Tyldesley

2024-10-03T10:29:48+00:00

Smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at a number of doctors’ surgeries in Atherton and Tyldesley will be invited for a lung health check this Autumn. The quick, free checks can help find lung cancer at an early stage – before you might have any symptoms - when it is much more treatable and help save lives. Most visitors to the lung health checks will get reassurance that everything is OK or be referred to get help to stop smoking. The mobile clinic is coming to Atherton and Tyldesley The will checks [...]

Lung MOTs come to Atherton and Tyldesley2024-10-03T10:29:48+00:00

Manchester bus driver who had breast cancer at 49 says check your breasts

2024-09-30T11:57:46+00:00

A MUM-OF-TWO from Manchester is urging everyone to check their breasts after she was successfully treated for breast cancer. Bus driver Joyce Singh, 51, from Stalybridge, found a lump under her left arm after taking a shower in February last year. She went to her GP the next day and was referred to Tameside Hospital. Joyce had a mammogram (an X-ray to check breasts for signs of cancer) and a biopsy (which involves taking a small sample of breast tissue so it can be examined under a microscope). These checks showed she had breast cancer. [...]

Manchester bus driver who had breast cancer at 49 says check your breasts2024-09-30T11:57:46+00:00

‘Don’t ignore your invite’: NHS urges women to come forward for cervical screening test

2024-08-20T16:48:48+00:00

Women and people with a cervix (neck of the womb) are being encouraged to attend their cervical screening appointments when invited by the NHS. Cervical screening (also  known as a  smear test) checks the health of the cervix and looks for  a certain high risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which can cause cervical cancer. If that type of high risk HPV is found, it can be treated before it turns into cancer. The test is very important for preventing cancer and is offered to women and people with a cervix aged between 25 and 64. [...]

‘Don’t ignore your invite’: NHS urges women to come forward for cervical screening test2024-08-20T16:48:48+00:00

Lung MOTs come to Whitefield, Unsworth and Besses from mid September

2024-08-15T10:18:22+00:00

Smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at doctors’ surgeries in parts of Whitefield, Unsworth and Besses will be invited for a lung health check this summer. The quick, free checks can help find lung cancer at an early stage – before you might have any symptoms - when it is much more treatable and help save lives. Most visitors to the lung health checks will get reassurance that everything is OK or be referred to get help to stop smoking. The Lung Health Checks are coming to Whitefield from mid-September The checks [...]

Lung MOTs come to Whitefield, Unsworth and Besses from mid September2024-08-15T10:18:22+00:00
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