GM Cancer News

The latest series of the Greater Manchester Cancer podcast, a series of six episodes looking in detail at personalised care, is now CPD accredited. Personalised care is fundamental to delivering better quality care that is meaningful to the individual and supports their health and wellbeing. This empowers people to manage their care and the impact of their cancer. Covering Holistic Needs Assessments, Personalised Stratified Follow up, Treatment Summaries, Gemonics, Cancer Care Reviews and social prescribing, each episode sees the experts delivering this work -  including patients who have been closely involved in co-production throughout – discuss what’s involved. Freya Driver, Personalised [...]

Smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at doctors’ surgeries in central Manchester will be invited for a lung health check from August 2024 onwards.. 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 checks are currently in the process of being rolled out across Greater Manchester. Checks [...]

The NHS and Asda in Greater Manchester are teaming up to provide vital advice on millions of toothpaste tubes and mouthwash bottles encouraging people to contact their GP or dentist if they notice any potential symptoms of mouth cancer. From this month, Asda's own brand of oral hygiene products will now feature NHS advice in over 500 Asda stores across the country and online. The guidance will be clearly displayed on the packaging, along with a link to more detailed information about mouth and throat cancer on the NHS website. The aim of the partnership [...]

As hundreds of thousands of NHS-Galleri trial blood test appointments across England come to a close, a leader from the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance is thanking the 20,000 participants in Greater Manchester along with community organisations, for supporting the NHS-Galleri trial – the world's largest research trial of a multi-cancer early detection blood test. Mobile clinics have visited locations across the region, including Oldham, Salford, Hulme, Trafford, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Wigan, Stockport and Tameside to collect blood samples from volunteers taking part in the NHS-Galleri trial. This month [July] marks the last blood sample collection appointments [...]

Top quality health apps to support residents across Greater Manchester to live well with and after cancer will now be available on a new, NHS-approved health app library. Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, part of the NHS, and ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps, which reviews health apps for the NHS, have worked together on the new app library. Members of the public can access the library for free from the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance website www.gmcancer.org.uk Digital tools such as health apps are an important tool to supplement face-to-face healthcare. [...]

The Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance has appointed a new Medical Director, Miss Susannah Penney. Susannah is a consultant head, neck and thyroid surgeon at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, a position she has held since 2012. She has also held the post of Associate Medical Director for the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance since 2018, following three years as clinical lead for the head and neck cancer pathway. Susannah trained at The University of Manchester Medical School and qualified in 1999. After completing basic surgical training at the Royal Bolton Hospital, she embarked on a career in [...]