GM Cancer News

The Greater Manchester Cancer Conference will be held on 14 and 15 May 2024 at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate. The event is organised by the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance. This year’s theme is Empowerment in Practice: Communities, Professionals and Researchers.  The Greater Manchester Cancer Conference will be held on 14 - 15 May 2024 The event will explore topics such as digital empowerment, personalised care, working with under-served communities to reduce health inequalities, and much more. The conference is the Alliance’s flagship event, bringing together all of the Greater Manchester cancer system and partners [...]

Past and current smokers in Hindley in Wigan aged between 55–74 years old are being invited to have an NHS Lung Health Check. The new checks are the latest phase of the Greater Manchester Targeted Lung Health Check Programme - a drive to help improve earlier diagnosis of lung cancer and save more lives. The programme is jointly organised by the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Staff outside the Targeted Lung Health Check truck in Hindley A scanner and clinic will be housed in a mobile unit in Tesco, [...]

Carina Doveaston, a business development manager, from Wigan, is sharing her experience to raise awareness during Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. Carina, 36, from Lowton, Wigan, was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer – known as triple negative breast cancer - in January 2021. Carina Doveaston, a mum of one and business development manager, from Wigan The mum-of-one went to her GP after noticing her nipple was inverted and seeing a prominent swelling under her armpit just before Christmas in 2020. She’d previously felt under the weather and extremely tired in October [...]

Oldham mum of two nominated for special award by Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance An Oldham mum-of-two has been nominated for a prestigious This Is Manchester Award by her colleagues at Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance. Jo Taylor, who is living with metastatic breast cancer – also known as secondary breast cancer - has been nominated for the Dianne Oxberry Special Impact Award. It marks her tireless work to improve the lives of patients diagnosed with breast cancer at a local, national and international level. Jo has also championed the health and wellbeing of patients and runs retreats [...]

Over the coming weeks, hundreds of participants in Oldham who enrolled on the NHS-Galleri trial in 2021 will be returning to mobile clinics for their last of three appointments for the trial. Participants will be asked to give a blood sample to help the NHS see if using the Galleri® blood test alongside existing cancer screening can help detect cancer early. Finding cancer early often means it is easier to treat. A man taking part in the NHS Galleri trial with a member of staff in front of the mobile unit looking at each other [...]

People in Greater Manchester who have had a cough for three weeks or more are being encouraged to contact their GP practice and come forward for lifesaving checks as part of an NHS campaign. The ‘Help Us, Help You’ campaign from NHS England uses TV, radio, online adverts and social media to increase knowledge of the main symptom of lung cancer. The ads feature people with a persistent cough and aim to encourage people experiencing this to contact their GP practice. A cough for 3 weeks or more could be a warning sign. NHS [...]

Mum-of-three Tracey is on a mission to help improve conversations about cancer after being treated for womb cancer. Tracey Jacques, 52, credits one small bit of knowledge with saving her life. The HR officer – who has recently finished treatment for womb cancer - went through the menopause at age 47 when her periods stopped. Tracey says women need to talk about their vaginas and not be embarrassed. Thanks to talking to her sister – a womb cancer survivor – she knew something was not right when she had a heavy bleed a couple [...]

A HALE business owner and mum-of-one has opened up about living with a rare blood cancer to help raise awareness during Blood Cancer Awareness Month in September. Faye Bala, 38, has been living with Essential Thrombocythaemia (ET) a type of blood cancer that affects the bone marrow since she was 16. But it’s only been in the last year that’s she’s started openly talking about this with her friends and to clients at the beauty salon. Faye says her posts and videos have not only had a great response but have helped her come to terms with her diagnosis.   [...]

Over the coming months, thousands of participants in Greater Manchester who enrolled on the NHS-Galleri trial in 2021 will be returning to mobile clinics for their last of three appointments for the trial. Participants will be asked to give a blood sample to help the NHS see if using the Galleri® blood test alongside existing cancer screening can help detect cancer early. Finding cancer early often means it is easier to treat. Around 20,000 people in Greater Manchester are preparing to take part in the final year of the NHS Galleri trial. Since the NHS-Galleri [...]

A new NHS mobile ‘clinic in a van’ is coming to Oldham so staff can talk to men about their risk of prostate cancer. The ThisVanCan roadshow is aimed at black men aged over 45 who are more at risk of developing prostate cancer than other men. 1 in 4 black men will develop prostate cancer. The van is also open to all other men and people with a prostate aged over 45 who have a family history of prostate, breast or ovarian cancer. This means your father or brother has had prostate cancer when they were under the [...]