by Verite | Feb 17, 2020 | News, Post Treatment
Cancer Charities face problems Cancer is big business, on both sides of the Atlantic. But, with some major cancer charities reporting a fall in income, signs are the once-generous public are not so inclined to donate today. Now, they want to know where their money is...
by Verite | Jan 8, 2020 | Post Treatment
Goalposts move again Brace yourselves! Don’t think the ‘promised’ £38 billion for the NHS is going to benefit cancer care very much. Yet again the goalposts have moved, so isn’t it time the NHS made a New Year Resolution to tell us the...
by Verite | Nov 30, 2019 | Post Treatment
Cancer survivorship: after treatment what’s happening? We are all living longer, and more of us diagnosed with cancer survive for 10 years or more. You would think this a matter for celebration; massive pats-on-the-back for those of us who struggled through...
by Verite | Oct 2, 2019 | Post Treatment
The NHS wastes money but ignores ‘credit control’ on its doorstep ‘If you watched TV in the 80s, you might remember Sir John Harvey Jones fronting the superb series ‘Troubleshooter’. My favourite shot showed his utter astonishment,...
by Verite | Sep 9, 2019 | Post Treatment
Where has their campaigning spirit gone? According to official statistics, Britain’s cancer survival rate has plummeted in the past decade from 13th in Europe to 25th (WHO, NAO, Cancer Research UK, etc) Deloitte reports “adults with cancer continue to...
by Verite | Aug 22, 2019 | Post Treatment
Possible signs and symptoms of cancer Often Doctors don’t tell us, but reading the press and talking to fellow patients, we begin to realise that, rather than giving us immunity, having had cancer we have a chance of getting another dose. For six months I asked...
