cancer
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Data from the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England suggests that adults diagnosed with stage one skin, prostate or breast cancer have the same chance of being alive...
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A report produced by Teenage Cancer Trust and Public Health England considered data on 13-24 year olds living in England with figures from Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and...
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Breast cancer is a disease that is generally associated with affecting women, but men get it too. Around 390 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK,...
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Following on from the article titled ‘Over 40,000 women did not receive cervical cancer screening letters’ it has been reported that 3,591 more woman have been affected by the cervical...
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The NHS failed to send out over 40,000 letters containing cervical cancer screening information to women in England. 150-200 of these were test results that had come up showing abnormalities,...
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Julie Crossley, a medical injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has succeeding in obtaining £70,000 for the family of a man who died unnecessarily because his early symptoms of mouth cancer...
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Ashtons Legal in Bury St Edmunds has been recogised by Cancer Research UK after facilitating over £307,561 worth of gifts from people choosing to leave a legacy to the charity...
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A former Hornchurch teacher is appealing to former colleagues for help, as he seeks answers after diagnosis of a form of cancer associated with exposure to asbestos. He believes he...
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Between April and July 2018, 14,479 people were treated for some type of urological cancer. This is a 36% increase from the same four month period the year before. Chief...
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As asbestos lawyers here at Ashtons Legal, we are seeing an increasing number of “secondary” asbestos exposure cases where (generally) the spouse and sometimes other family members, have developed mesothelioma,...
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The UK is currently experiencing a major shortage of senior radiologists which in turn is disrupting and delaying medical care, in particular cancer care. Between 2012 and 2017, the workload...
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Julie Crossley, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons, has obtained a £20,000 settlement for a man whose prostate cancer was not diagnosed until it had progressed, after doctors missed an...
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