Angelina Jolie is the latest in a string of famed women to announce she’s had risk-reducing breast surgery after discovering she carries a breast cancer (BRCA) gene. Before her, Michelle Heaton and Sharon Osbourne have also had this major surgery, which can reduce the risk of breast cancer by up to 95%. But what does surgery involve? What are the BRCA genes and how do you know whether you carry one? And while the benefits…
We all deal with stress in our day-to-day routine. But stress can easily become too hard to manage, harming our physical and mental health. April is Stress Awareness Month and in this blog, editor Helena suggests some ways to cope with stress and manage some of its side effects.
1) Change up your location
Get some fresh air
Something as simple as breathing in fresh air can help when stress gets out of control. When you…
In this blog, our quality and evaluation officer Lynn talks about the easy read information we produce, and how it can be helpful for many people.
We know that being told you have cancer can be a huge shock. You feel anxious and uncertain about what will happen next. It can be difficult to take in what the doctor tells you. Information about treatments can seem overwhelming.
But if you are one of the million adults in…
Being diagnosed with cancer is one of the scariest, most isolating experiences most people will ever go through. Following any cancer diagnosis, you might feel very alone, like nobody understands what you’re facing. But if you’ve been diagnosed with a rare cancer, these feelings of isolation can be even more difficult. This blog contains some tips for coping with a rare cancer, which we hope will help.
1…For Mouth Cancer Action Month, information development nurse Teri writes about symptoms, causes and risk factors and diagnosis of mouth cancer.
The ease with which most of us can talk and eat is something many of us do not think twice about. However, being diagnosed with mouth cancer can change how easily we carry out these daily actions.
So, it’s important to be aware of what to look out for. And when it’s important…
