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Womb Cancer in the News

14/5/2016

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It’s been an amazing week for womb cancer awareness and about time too.
Articles in The Huffington Post  and on BBC news website  and also on ITV news  and Twitter has been peachy hot with lots of RT’s.

Thanks have to go to The Eve Appeal and Daloni Carlisle for getting the word out there. The Eve Appeal have launched their Ask Eve Gynae nurse service this week and focussed on womb cancer as part of the media  promotion. Daloni is a womb cancer patient and is working with the Eve Appeal to help get  womb cancer more attention.

We are really pleased to help play a small part in this – thanks partly to all the media attention, we have posted out 12 packs of womb cancer awareness leaflets this week all around the UK.
 
Hopefully we can all keep the momentum going and get womb cancer the attention it needs to help make sure that women everywhere know the facts and the signs and symptoms to be aware of.

It’s not going to be an easy job,  that is why we have to collaborate and work together.  We have always been willing to do that and hopefully others will too.

With 26 women a day being diagnosed (CRUK figures) we can’t afford not to.

xx Kaz xx


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Peach Sister attends parliamentary reception for Cancer52

6/5/2016

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.On 20th April Peach Sister Hannah Robinson went to Westminster and attended a parliamentary reception organised by Cancer52, a coalition of more than 80 charities representing rare and less common cancers of which WCSUK is a member of. The reception was hosted and addressed by Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer (APPGC), John Baron MP.
The purpose of the reception was to raise awareness of these cancers and highlight the need for earlier diagnosis. 
Rare and less common cancers together account for more than half of all UK cancer deaths – more than the ‘big four’ (breast, prostate, lung and bowel cancer together) – and on average have poorer earlier diagnosis rates. 

As I am unable to attend meetings such as these, Cancer52 kindly agreed to let Hannah attend as a patient representative on behalf of WCSUK. She came forward and agreed to attend after I asked in the private chat group if anyone would like to go in my place.
Hannah, who lives on Isle of Wight is one of our younger ladies to have been diagnosed with womb cancer..

Jane Lyons, CEO of Cancer52, said, “It was fantastic to see so many people affected by rare and less common cancers at the reception raising awareness of these diseases with their MPs.   For many the speed of diagnosis is critical as rare and less common cancers are more likely than the common cancers to be diagnosed late, often in A&E, and this has an impact on one year survival rates."

 Hannah said, “It was a pleasure to join Cancer52 at their reception and discuss such an important issue. We need to be doing far better at diagnosing and treating cancers earlier, particularly rare and less common cancers.” 




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We thank Hannah for taking the time to attend the event and hope that some more of our lovely ladies will get the opportunity to attend events like this in the future.
xx Kaz xx

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