40 h. ago I hid from the world when cancer changed my body until dancing transformed my life

Despite radiotherapy, appointments, exhaustion and pain, Rachael Anderson never missed a training session

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46 h. ago I was enjoying a midnight swim. Then my girlfriend kissed me – and the nightmare began

Seventeen years ago Nathan Dunne was locked out of his body, or at least that’s how it felt. He talks about his battle with depersonalisation disorder – and his sudden fear of waterOn a cold winter’s night, in a “fit of spontaneity”, Nathan Dunne and his girlfriend went for a midnight swim on Hampstead Heath in London. They had been living together for a few months and, although it was dark and chilly, they “had a summer feeling in that first flush of the relationship”, Dunne says. They shed their clothes and waded into the shallows. After diving into the icy water, Dunne’s girlfriend put her lips to his cheek, and as they pulled apart, his life changed beyond all recognition. “It was like being struck. Like something came down,” he says, slicing the air with his hand. “The flip of a switch.”Dunne’s transformation sounds like a fairytale in reverse: one kiss, and his life turned into a nightmare. Seventeen years have passed since that night, and he still mostly explains the change i...

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4 d. ago Many cancer patients unable to go on holiday because of rules

A cancer charity has called on the Government to change the system

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4 d. ago Bristol's Joe Batley: I didn't think cancer would change my life

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY ALEX BYWATER: When you've beaten cancer at 21, been made redundant and bounced back to be a Premiership star, perspective tends to come your way.

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6 d. ago Daughter of alleged terrorist says 'America changed me' as family face deportation

Habiba Soliman penned a glowing essay about how her life was transformed when she moved to the US from Kuwait with her family two years ago - but then her father allegedly launched a deadly anti-Semitic terror attack

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6 d. ago Common food 90% of Brits don't eat enough of 'lowers risk of deadly cancer'

A dietitian says making one key change to your diet could slash cancer risk

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1 week ago New AI test could end ‘postcode lottery’ for ‘game changer’ prostate cancer drug

The test, developed by Artera, uses AI to pick up features invisible to the human eye on images of tumour samples.

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1 week ago ‘I’ve gotten my life back’: London, Ont., neurosurgeon transforming the way Ontarians deal with back pain

‘I’ve gotten my life back’: London, Ont., neurosurgeon transforming the way Ontarians deal with back pain  CTV News

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1 week ago 'I was left devastated when I found out what my unexplainable pain actually was'

After experiencing unexplained abdominal pain for months, Emma received a shocking diagnosis aged 39 during a visit to A&E - something she says resulted in her life taking an 'unexpected and transformative turn'

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1 week ago Doctors shocked at extreme new aesthetics craze that sends cancer risk soaring

A dangerous new trend that sees people using a freezing cold device to mark their skin and change hair colour raises your cancer risk, warns doctors.

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1 week ago 'My Quasimodo boobs were so big I couldn't eat – now my life is transformed'

One woman said her life was completely changed after she reduced her breasts by almost five cup sizes – as before she struggled to work, walk and even eat a normal meal

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2 w. ago Doctors sound alarm over link between cancer explosion and crisis Trump calls a hoax

A growing global crisis that President Donald Trump has long branded a hoax could be fueling growing rates and deaths from breast, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers in 17 Middle Eastern countries.

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2 w. ago Global heating may be fuelling rise in deadly cancers among women

Study authors warn women are ‘physiologically more vulnerable’ to climate-related health risks

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2 w. ago Strange change to my NOSE was the first sign of lethal brain cancer

A mother-of-three who's lethal brain cancer was missed by NHS doctors has revealed she has just a year to live, after struggling with bizarre symptoms mistaken for a mini-stroke.

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2 w. ago Jack Grealish looks out of time at Manchester City now Guardiola has moved the goalposts | Jonathan Liew

In the Premier League’s shifting landscape, this struggling team can no longer carry a winger lacking straight-line pace and a goal threatJack Grealish is prowling. The wind tousling his hair, the ball at his feet, the way it was always meant to be. In front of him a wall of Bournemouth defenders jumpily stands guard, eyes wide like stags ready to bolt. Grealish shuffles inside, body feinting, hips dancing. You want to know what happens next. What happens next is that the referee blows for full time.It’s the 97th minute; Grealish came on in the 91st. In that time Bournemouth somehow managed to score a goal. It wasn’t Grealish’s fault, but it did eat up most of the time in which he was hoping to make an impression. No matter. As the game ends, the cameras hunt down a treble-winning City legend making what might well be his final appearance at the Etihad Stadium. Kevin De Bruyne takes his handshakes and his tributes. Grealish slips quietly down the tunnel. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Disney Channel fans stunned by star's shock transformation as he hits major life milestone

Tenzing Norgay Trainor, now 23, starred in the show at only 12 years old, but now, flash forward a decade later and he's all grown up.

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3 w. ago ‘Mum, my brain’: how I learned to walk, talk and even dance again after a devastating stroke at 36

I was riding high as a music journalist with a new book in the shops when I had what I thought was a migraine. In fact, it was a burst aneurysm and I needed emergency surgery. Two years into my recovery, can I learn how to find joy again?I am a dancer. The dark is usually a friend to me, allowing me to stretch and move my limbs into unfashionable positions as music washes over me. My music journalism career means I have spent more than two decades at gigs and in clubs, falling in love with music, contorting my body, two‑stepping, making any space into a dancefloor, then going home and writing about it.Two years ago, when I was 36, I was riding high at the launch party for my first book, about housing, home and music, and I danced as R, my husband, DJ’d Tems, Asake and Burna Boy. The publishers had put up a billboard about the book; I remember walking to the petrol station to buy the papers and read the reviews, and feeling relieved that they were good. I began preparing fo...

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3 w. ago The ick factor that could save a life: US cancer researchers look to fecal waste for treatment clues

The Mayo Clinic hopes to uncover how the microbiome affects how patients react to cancer medicationsA leading US clinic hopes its fecal waste biobank will help researchers make new discoveries about how to treat cancer patients – one of several efforts to turn human waste into medicine.The Mayo Clinic biobank is part of researchers’ years-long effort to “personalize” medicine by uncovering how the microbiome changes how patients react to cancer medications. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Approval for derelict rural Stirling mansion to be transformed into new site

The developers are aiming to give Pirniehall House a new lease of life by transforming it into a seven-bedroom property.

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3 w. ago Dancer left with burns covering 90 per cent of body after fire dance goes wrong

One brave ballet dancer who suffered agonising burns when her straw skirt caught fire is determined to recover - Laura Daniela Villamil has had 17 operations so far

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