Signs and symptoms

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Tesco pharmacies are helping spot cancer early

For the September early diagnosis campaign, Tesco customers with unusual symptoms or questions about cancer are invited to get expert information and support while they shop. For the September early diagnosis campaign, Tesco customers with unusual symptoms or questions about cancer are invited to get expert information and support while they shop.

18 September 2024

• Health & Medicine

Symptom triggered testing helps doctors diagnose ovarian cancer early

Testing women with symptoms that could be linked to ovarian cancer is an effective way of finding aggressive forms of the disease in their early stages, according to research we helped fund. Testing women with symptoms that could be linked to ovarian cancer is an effective way of finding aggressive forms of the disease in their early stages, according to research we helped fund.

15 August 2024

• Personal Stories

‘My sporting pro days are over, but I’m teaching the next generation’: Will’s story

Basketball pro Will Wise founded #CancerBae, a movement focused on reshaping perceptions of the disease, after a sudden diagnosis with rare, incurable cancer. Basketball pro Will Wise founded #CancerBae, a movement focused on reshaping perceptions of the disease, after a sudden diagnosis with rare, incurable cancer.

9 February 2024

• Health & Medicine

New tool to tackle gaps in public’s knowledge of blood cancer symptoms

Researchers have developed the Blood CAM tool which could shape future blood cancer awareness campaigns and save lives. Researchers have developed the Blood CAM tool which could shape future blood cancer awareness campaigns and save lives.

14 July 2023

• Health & Medicine

Help seeking: Why isn’t it as simple as it might sound?

A poll has revealed 50% of UK adults with a possible cancer symptom wait 6 months or more before contacting their GP. Why might people not seek help when they need it? A poll has revealed 50% of UK adults with a possible cancer symptom wait 6 months or more before contacting their GP. Why might people not seek help when they need it?

10 August 2022

• Science & Technology
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Cytosponge-AI combo could help doctors diagnose Barrett’s oesophagus

Cancer Research UK-funded researchers have developed a tool to help experts diagnose a condition that can increase the risk of developing oesophageal cancer. Cancer Research UK-funded researchers have developed a tool to help experts diagnose a condition that can increase the risk of developing oesophageal cancer.

15 April 2021

• Health & Medicine

Recurring infections could lead to delayed bladder or kidney cancer diagnosis

Women with bladder or kidney cancer may lose out on a prompt diagnosis if they are already being regularly treated for recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) Women with bladder or kidney cancer may lose out on a prompt diagnosis if they are already being regularly treated for recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs)

13 February 2019

• Health & Medicine

Doctor and dad duo design new 'cancer maps' to aid diagnosis

A GP and his dad have invented a new online mind-mapping tool for doctors that aims to help GPs speed up cancer diagnosis A GP and his dad have invented a new online mind-mapping tool for doctors that aims to help GPs speed up cancer diagnosis

8 November 2018

• Health & Medicine

More women than men are diagnosed with bowel cancer as an emergency despite extra GP visits

More than a third of women with bowel cancer in England were diagnosed after an emergency hospital visit compared to less than a third of men. More than a third of women with bowel cancer in England were diagnosed after an emergency hospital visit compared to less than a third of men.

3 November 2017

• Health & Medicine

There’s more to emergency diagnoses than GPs ‘failing cancer patients’

We look at headlines claiming GPs are ‘failing an estimated 32,000 cancer patients a year’ in England. We look at headlines claiming GPs are ‘failing an estimated 32,000 cancer patients a year’ in England.

26 April 2017

• Health & Medicine

Live from inside the human body: robots, blue dye and bowel cancer

In a world first, we've just broadcast a colonoscopy live on TV with Channel 4 to demystify and take the fear out of this procedure. In a world first, we've just broadcast a colonoscopy live on TV with Channel 4 to demystify and take the fear out of this procedure.

18 January 2017