18 h. ago Marathon hero Kevin Sinfield's knighthood chances soar thanks to the Daily Star campaign

Even the bookies are backing our call for the rugby ace who has raised £11m to find a cure for motor neurone disease to get a gong

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4 d. ago ‘I’m lucky to be here’: Glenn Campbell's £500k fundraiser to help find brain cancer cure

The money will help scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow “accelerate progress toward a cure”.

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9 d. ago Scientists working to 'cure cancer' in new Channel 4 show share 'exciting possibilities'

The three-part documentary follows experts developing a lung cancer prevention vaccine, blood tests to detect cancer early, and new brain cancer treatments

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9 d. ago Kevin Sinfield plays a Corker as he smashes second ultra marathon in 2 days for pal Rob

Sinfield set out to raise £777,777 to help find a cure for motor neurone disease and he may have reached that target already after finishing second in SuperValu Pairc in Cork

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1 week ago Kevin Sinfield praises MND sufferers who 'just get on with life' as challenge starts

EXCLUSIVE Kevin Sinfield, who's raised millions to find a cure for motor neurone disease, admitted to battling a 'rollercoaster' of emotions as his ultra-marathon challenge started

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1 week ago Kevin Sinfield says Lewis Moody diagnosis is stark reminder ahead of latest MND fundraiser

Kevin Sinfield is preparing for his latest MND fundraising challenge and says the news of Lewis Moody's diagnosis is a stark reminder that the fight to find a cure must continue

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2 w. ago 'I'm a doctor and patients should know which conditions blood tests don't find'

GP Dr Leen Tannous has shared a video on TikTok busting common myths about what routine blood tests can and cannot detect, including cancer. Users had a range of views in the comments

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2 w. ago Scots student who feared not seeing another Christmas urges support to find cure

Joscelyne Kerr, 20, from Kinross, was diagnosed in 2023 with an ultra-rare and aggressive brain cancer, the first recorded case of its kind in Scotland.

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3 w. ago Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures review – this vaccine documentary is so inspirational it’ll make you weep

The tale of Prof Sarah Blagden’s attempt to find a treatment that stops the disease is the rarest of things – TV that makes you dare to hopeCancer Detectives: Finding the Cures should come with a rare warning: may make you feel hopeful for humanity and marginally less convinced that we are all willingly leaping into a handcart and smoothing our own paths to hell.This is an hour that outlines the work being done to create vaccines against cancers. Lung cancer, specifically, at the moment – 50,000 cases of which are diagnosed each year in the UK and which is the most common cause of cancer-related death – but with the potential to prevent many more types in the future. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Can a bra really detect breast cancer? 'Smart' device developed by British scientists could spot disease in specific group of women

British scientists, who developed the 'smart bra', believe the tech will detect tumours as small as 5mm, which may be missed in between mammogram screenings.

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4 w. ago Come See Me in the Good Light review – frank, funny and inspiring documentary tackles cancer

The Sundance award-winner, now landing on Apple TV+, is a remarkably unvarnished look at a couple dealing with a devastating diagnosisIt is impossible to talk about cancer without invoking another Big C: cliche. Illness and pain, “journeys” and “battles”, finding appreciation for life while reckoning with death – these are the building blocks of cancer stories, at once uniquely devastating and devastatingly common. The poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, romantic partners for over a decade, took divergent approaches to the Big C. As a writer and editor, Falley strived to “eradicate” cliche; Gibson, as Falley put it, would instead “double down”.Diagnosed with incurable ovarian cancer in their late 40s, Gibson, the poet laureate of Colorado thus chose to double down on mantras we often aspire to embody but forget to practice: live fully, laugh more, love harder. Savor it all. “This is the beginning of a nightmare, I thought my worst fear come true,” they say early in the exquisite n...

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