6 h. ago My father poured boiling water on my dog and threw me across the room. He was a drunk

Dr Charlotte Proudman remembers the last time she saw her father. It isn't a happy memory. Then he died a week after her fourth birthday - freeing her from what would have been a life of 'sheer hell'.

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15 h. ago Beyonce’s mother opening up about breast cancer will save lives. This is how

Tina Knowles recently spoke about her breast cancer diagnosis. Justin Stebbing reports on why this will save lives

Science

30 h. ago REVEALED: From cancer to arthritis, how drug companies are selling treatments for 1,000 times what they cost to make

When Roy Bradley was told he had cancer in his lungs and liver, his first thought was he couldn't face chemotherapy and should prepare for his death.

Economics

66 h. ago Paula Radcliffe's teenage daughter's two cancer symptoms before diagnosis

Paula Radcliffe's teenage daughter's two cancer symptoms before diagnosis  Surrey Live

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3 d. ago I blew my nose and spotted the ONLY sign of cancer that had spread to my breasts, liver and lungs

Wendy White, who lives near Worcester, initially contacted her GP in 2022 when she was left suffering the symptom. But she claimed she was told it was merely sinusitis.

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4 d. ago Who are the Knowles family? From Tina to Beyoncé and Solange

The stars’ mother reveals details of her life with cancer and shares memories of her daughters’ lives in her memoir, Matriarch

Politics

6 d. ago Man warns of common symptom you should NEVER mistake for an infection...after he was hit with terminal cancer and given a year to live

Chris Cotton, from Sandbach, initially contacted his GP in October 2022 after suffering a symptom that's traditionally associated with a common infection.

Events

7 d. ago This Morning viewers praise 'brave' cancer survivor as she appears topless on live TV

This Morning has marked a show first today as it welcomed breast cancer survivor Louise Bernadette Butcher - who appeared on the show topless to show her mastectomy scars

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1 week ago Doctors told me my back pain was normal... it was actually stage 4 cancer and I was given months to live

A mom-of-three suffering from back pain was told her agony was caused by a common condition, but doctors later diagnosed her with stage 4 breast cancer .

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1 week ago The only sign of mum's bowel cancer that killed her in a year

Maria Paszkiewicz went to the doctors but was told her symptoms were the ill-effects of a food intolerance. Within eight months she had died from bowel cancer that spread to her liver.

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2 w. ago Beyond Paradise star opens up on 'cruel' death of husband 'it was too late'

Barbara Flynn, who has starred in Beyond Paradise and many other TV shows, has opened up about her husband's death from pancreatic cancer and how he had six weeks to live

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2 w. ago ‘The grief takes your breath away’: how death transformed a loving family – and shaped a remarkable film

Nik and Maria Payne were raising their ‘wild and free’ children in the Norwegian countryside when cancer turned their lives upside down. The reluctant stars of A New Kind of Wilderness talk about a world without MariaPeace hangs over a farm in rural Norway. The last of the melting snow lingers in hummocks and bikes are strewn outside the Payne family’s small rented cottage. Nik Payne materialises from behind the barn where he has been feeding the cows. One of his three children, Falk, 12, is lying on the sofa with a fever and a Biggles novel; later, Freja, 15, and Ulv, nine (known as Wolf or Wolfie), return from school. Their home is as warm and chaotic as any family’s – boots and coats strewn in the hallway, a fridge covered in photos, shelves of books – but with a few differences: there is no television and behind the living room door is an unobtrusive, very personal shrine.The Paynes find themselves the reluctant stars of a film, A New Kind of Wilderness, which has won awards at ...

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2 w. ago Breast cancer treatment breakthrough for patients as NHS approves new 'landmark' drug

Thousands with advanced breast cancer could live long lives thanks to a new drug approved on the NHS. Capivasertib, retailed as Truqap, targets the most common type of breast cancer and stops it spreading. Up to 3,000 women could benefit from the treatment each year, with experts last night hailing it “a great success story for British science.”

Science

2 w. ago New spit test for prostate cancer that can be carried out at home may be the best for spotting risk yet

Researchers say the test is so effective it could 'turn the tide' on the disease and help identify at-risk men without the need for a GP appointment.

Events

2 w. ago Dying US man uses his last months for community service in all 50 states

Doug Ruch embarked on ‘dying to serve tour’ after learning he had fewer than 18 months left amid cancer battleA Texas man who recently learned he likely had fewer than 18 months to live amid his battle with cancer is using the time he has left trying to voluntarily perform community service – including feeding people who are unhoused – in each of the US’s 50 states.Doug Ruch, 55, of San Antonio, said he embarked on what he named the “dying to serve tour” after his terminal diagnosis made him reflect on things he could have “done differently or better”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trisha Goddard admits 'I'm brassic' and had no choice but to join Celebrity Big Brother

ITV presenter Trisha Goddard joined Celebrity Big Brother due to money problems and in a bid to highlight how those living with terminal cancer can still live a happy and exciting life

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3 w. ago Woman, 21, told she has days left to live after missing signs of colon cancer

For years, Dominique McShain dreamed of becoming a psychologist for troubled youth in her native New Zealand .She was on track until she was diagnosed with incurable colon cancer last year.

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3 w. ago Woman, 33, given months to live after 'long Covid' turned out to be deadly cancer

Olivia Knowles, from Blackpool, has undergone more than five gruelling treatments to destroy the blood cancer , but none have proved successful.

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3 w. ago ‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and living with cancer

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save lives, he is speaking out about his own diagnosis, alongside the doctors who successfully treated himSteve McQueen felt relieved when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had no symptoms, was perfectly fit, at the peak of his game. Yet the Oscar-winning film-maker and artist believed it was inevitable. After all, his father had died from it, and he is a black man. The statistics speak for ­themselves. They are as overwhelming as they are bleak. One in eight men will get prostate c­ancer. They are two and a half times more likely to get it if their father or brother had it. They’re twice as likely to get it if they’re black – and they’re two and a half times more likely to die from it, too.McQueen is here today with his urology specialist...

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3 w. ago ‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and getting cancer

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save lives, he is speaking out about his own diagnosis, alongside the doctors who successfully treated himSteve McQueen felt relieved when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had no symptoms, was perfectly fit, at the peak of his game. Yet the Oscar-winning film-maker and artist believed it was inevitable. After all, his father had died from it, and he is a black man. The statistics speak for ­themselves. They are as overwhelming as they are bleak. One in eight men will get prostate c­ancer. They are two and a half times more likely to get it if their father or brother had it. They’re twice as likely to get it if they’re black – and they’re two and a half times more likely to die from it, too.McQueen is here today with his urology specialist...

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