6 h. ago The kindness of strangers: when I found out my cancer had spread, the woman in the next bed reached out

The doctors told me I would need a second mastectomy and extensive chemotherapy. I felt like I’d been hit by a truckRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesI’ve had more good sex than most people have had hot dinners, so when I found a lump in my breast and knew straight away it was cancer, I thought this is fine. I’ve had my fun. I’ll have a mastectomy, get it done and get on with my life.But when I came out of surgery, I was wheeled into a hospital room shared with one other woman. The doctors closed the curtain around us, sat down and told me the cancer had spread to my lymph nodes and my other breast. I would need a second mastectomy and an extensive course of chemo. I felt as if I’d been hit by a truck. I couldn’t believe it. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Young, 'beautiful and talented' woman's body found in bed a year after she died

Charlotte Leader, 23, was found dead in her flat in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in August last year, with a coroner unable to determine how long she had been deceased for

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26 h. ago Young woman found in bed year after she died was 'impossible to find' say family

Charlotte Leader, 23, was found dead in her flat in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in August last year, with a coroner unable to determine how long she had been deceased for

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7 d. ago Vaccine breakthrough as major trial shows 'smart jab' can slash spread of cancer linked to oral sex

Researchers presenting the findings in Berlin said the 'smart' drug 'could represent a real shift in how we treat head and neck cancer'.

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9 d. ago Edinburgh woman finds random man in hostel bed in bizarre viral TikTok incident

"I just went up to bed and there's a man in my bed but I don't know who he is."

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1 week ago Scientists create cancer vaccine that could completely stop spread of disease

Researchers have developed a nanoparticle-based cancer vaccine that has been able to prevent multiple types of cancer in mice with the findings published in the prestigious Cell Reports Medicine

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2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: a woman paid for my groceries when I couldn’t

I was trying to move money over quickly but the banking app was down. Plus, I had a toddler and a baby with me, and one had started screamingRead more in the Kindness of strangers seriesAt the Aldi checkout I was having trouble paying for my $100 grocery shop. It wasn’t that I couldn’t afford to pay, I’d just forgotten to transfer money into our everyday transaction account. I was trying to move the money over quickly at the checkout but the banking app was down. I had my two little kids with me, a toddler and a baby, one of whom had started screaming.With a growing queue of other customers behind me, the checkout guy set aside my receipt for the scanned groceries and saved it, then went on to serving other people. Frantically, I called my husband and asked him to come down to the supermarket with his bank card and pay, as it didn’t seem that I was going to be able to. While I was on the phone to him, a lady in the line paid for her groceries – then told the checkout guy, “I’ll pay ...

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2 w. ago Joe Biden, 82, receiving new treatment after 'aggressive' cancer spread to his bones

A spokesperson for the politician announced on Saturday that the 82-year-old will undergo the treatment, as well as hormone therapy.

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2 w. ago Joe Biden undergoes fresh treatment after aggressive cancer spread to bones

Joe Biden revealed he is undergoing a new phase of treatment for his aggressive form of prostate cancer - which he revealed to the public in May

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2 w. ago New wonder drug combo ‘HALVES the risk of deadly prostate cancer spread’

MEN with aggressive prostate cancer could benefit from a new drug combination that slows cancer growth, scientists say. Adding a drug already used against ovarian and fallopian tube cancers to standard prostate cancer treatment could slash the risk of tumour growth by 48 per cent, a University College London (UCL) study found. The treatment -...

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3 w. ago Woman, 22, posted sarcastic Facebook post after 'setting sister's bed on fire as she slept'

Addison Brown allegedly set her sister's bed on fire in June 2025, and after months of investigation she has been arrested, and made a series of bizarre posts on social media about it

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3 w. ago The kindness of strangers: my melons went flying and a group of old ladies came to the rescue

White hair, head scarves and one with a walking stick – they looked like they had stepped out of the same babushka dollRead more in the Kindness of strangers seriesOne Saturday morning, I accompanied my mum to the local market to do our weekly fruit and veg shop. Mum was still looking around when I offered to take the shopping back to the car, which was stuffed into a little red trolley. It was like a Mary Poppins bag – quite a small thing, but it was surprising how much you could load it up. Or so we thought.With the trolley heaving under the weight of an already full load of groceries, my mum rested a box of honeydew melons on top. She warned me to be careful getting it back to the car. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Only Fools and Horses Mickey Pearce star Patrick Murray dies after tragic lung cancer battle

Only Fools and Horses star Patrick Murray, famed for playing Mickey Pearce in the beloved BBC sitcom, has sadly passed after living with lung cancer which had spread

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4 w. ago The kindness of strangers: a Los Angeles bus driver got everyone onboard to sing me happy birthday

The jolly driver had already done me a favour when I’d left my camera on board. Then he got on the microphone and said ‘Hey folks, it’s this guy’s birthday today’Read more in the Kindness of strangers seriesBack in my native Austria, people don’t even bother to lock their front doors. So when I set off in the 1980s to backpack through the US, I was warned about the country’s high crime rate and made to fear this big, scary place.I had my 21st birthday while I was in Los Angeles, and I’d been out having a few beers. Tired and ready to go home, I jumped on a public bus. The moment I stepped off I realised I’d left my camera on the seat – a disaster, as it was very precious to me. Continue reading...

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last month Reform politician spread false cancer claim and recruited people to controversial marketing scheme

Laura Anne Jones was part of a business model in which sales reps progress to higher levels depending on how many people they recruit

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