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Student given a private jet to fly to Germany to keep up her experimental cancer treatment

Laura Nuttall, 30, of Barrowford, Lancashire, told the BBC she made a 'desperate plea' online when her regular flights to Dusseldorf earlier this month 'disappeared' due to lockdown restrictions.




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Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider dies at 73 after cancer battle

In a statement, his bandmate Ralf Hütter announced: 'The very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease.'




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Survivor's Sharn Coombes shares her heartbreak over her father's terminal cancer diagnosis

Australian Survivor star Sharn Coombes has shared her heartbreak over her father's terminal cancer diagnosis. 




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Screening women for breast-cancer genes is cost effective and could save thousands of lives a year

Scientists looked at more than 11,800 women who battled the disease in the UK, US or Australia. They simulated looking for mutations on BRCA1, as well as BRCA2 and PALB2.




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Angelina Jolie discusses mom's breast cancer and her own health: 'I made choices to improve my odds'

Angelina Jolie is using her own family medical history and experiences to shed light on advancements in cancer research, treatment and women's health and rights worldwide.




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Men with a genetically high risk of developing prostate cancer should have a blood test every year

Men may carry the BRCA2 gene, a mutation that also causes breast cancer. Those men should be identified and given blood tests every year, scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London said.




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Val Kilmer opens up about his battle with throat cancer and says he feels better than he sounds

Val Kilmer has opened up about his battle with throat cancer and even admitted that he's shy despite all of his famous girlfriends of the past.




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Simple blood is saving lives by detecting lung cancer years before symptoms show

Rebecca Allison, 69, and Shirley Dolan, 63, were both recipients of a revolutionary blood test - called the EarlyCDT-Lung test - that detected their lung cancer years before symptoms appeared.




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Great-gran, 81, with terminal cancer beats coronavirus in time for her birthday 

Mavis Torrance, from Bishopbriggs, told STV she displayed a high temperature days after her daughter Angela Grubb and son-in-law Gus started to show symptoms of Covid-19.




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NHS 'refuses' to send doctor to 78-year-old cancer patient because of coronavirus lockdown

Old Kilpatrick Medical Practice in Glasgow, 'refused' to send a doctor to Stuart Cameron, 78, who died of a heart attack brought on by lung cancer five days after he was diagnosed.




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Atletico striker Angel Correa shaves head to show support to cancer-stricken mum

The Argentinian forward shared his new shaved head look on Instagram stood alongside his mother Marcela, with both seen smiling in the heartwarming mother-son photo.




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MIC's Binky goes bare faced to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Binky will be taking part in the #DareToBare campaign which encourages women to go make-up free for October. Here she shows you how to keep a bare face looking fresh.




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Cancer battle proved to be spur for Ed Chamberlin to take the punt on new challenge in racing

HUGH MacDONALD: It is a testament to the power of sport in Ed Chamberlin's life that it both consoled and excited him as he laboured under the shadow of death.




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Father whose relationship ended when he was misdiagnosed with an STI is told he has terminal cancer

Tony Stevens, from Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, and his partner Trisha Nation split up after doctors said an STI was the cause of his night sweats and weight loss.




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Charlie Teo's 'miracle girl' Milli Lucas, 13, whose cancerous brain tumour returned defies odds

Dr Charlie Teo's 'miracle girl' Amelia 'Milli' Lucas, from Sydney, has miraculously defied the odds to walk and talk after undergoing a gruelling eight-hour brain tumour surgery.




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Sheryl Crow spotted in New York after opening up about cancer diagnosis and Lance Armstrong breakup

The 57-year-old singer was making the press rounds in New York City, spotted at Buzzfeed's AM to DM show and Build Series on Thursday afternoon.




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Former Liverpool and Ireland striker Michael Robinson dies after long battle against cancer

The former Republic of Ireland international, who became a famous football pundit in Spain, revealed he had metastatic cancer in December 2018 but has now tragically lost his battle.




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Deborah James, who has stage four bowel cancer, reveals she's had to have a new tumour zapped

Deborah James, from South London, was told she was free of the disease earlier this year. However, her tumour markers, which indicate a new growth, have spiked in recent weeks.




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Like a Disney fairy tale: 4-year-old cancer survivor gets dream vacation after all

McKenna May, a Ohio girl who has spent most her life battling cancer, will get to visit Disney World after family members raised funds for her to take the trip.




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Mother could not see her daughter before she died from cancer because of the COVID-19 pandemic

Mary Hagen Roberts, 64, penned an essay about how her daughter Laura Hagen Hoffman, 33, died just a day after learning her cancer had spread to her lungs.




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Young father who thought a lump on his testicle was a rugby injury discovers it's a deadly cancer

A Brisbane young father has recalled the earth-shattering moment he was blindsided by the heartbreaking news he had testicular cancer. he's telling his story as part of Movember.




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Cancer faker who conned four judges into thinking he was dying faces jail

A con artist who hoodwinked four New South Wales judges with sham medical reports claiming he had terminal cancer is set to be jailed.




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Zayn Malik donates £10,000 to girl in need of cancer treatment

Zayn Malik has donated £10,000 to a girl in need of cancer treatment.




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Coronation Street star Katie McGlynn says her cancer storyline opened her eyes to 'incredible' NHS

The actress, 26, urged people to stay and home and donate to charities (if they're able to) as she praised healthcare staff in preparation for her character Sinead Tinker's harrowing storyline




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Girl who won backing of thousands as she battled blood cancer died on New Year's Day

Esme Handley was diagnosed with leukaemia when she was just 22 months old after developing a large bruise on a holiday to Greece. She passed away on New Year's Day.




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Mother-of-three says her rescue dog saved her by sniffing her until she was diagnosed with cancer

Joanne Lowen, 60, from Kent. said her rescue dog Menios, a Hellenic Hound, detected her cancer by repeatedly sniffing her arms, despite her most recent mammogram coming back clear.




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Carrie Bickmore promotes Beanies 4 Brain Cancer initiative

Carrie Bickmore caught up with the judges from Masterchef on Tuesday, where they donned her popular Beanies 4 Brain Cancer head wear.




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Carrie Bickmore launches new Beanies 4 Brain Cancer range on The Project 

Carrie Bickmore, host of Australian talk show The Project has released a new range of headwear called Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer to raise money for brain cancer research.




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Serena Williams gets naked for the Berlei Bra breast cancer campaign

Tennis star Serena Williams recently sang a rendition of the Divinyls classic song I Touch Myself as part of a breast cancer awareness campaign.




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Taylor Swift's tearful mother Andrea cheers her at AMAs on amid her ongoing cancer struggle

Andrea, who's battled cancer since 2015, was seen sitting with husband Scott and singer Selena Gomez, 27, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles taking in the big night for the singer.




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The Voice contestant Natasha Stuart dies from breast cancer age 43 as David Campbell leads tributes

Natasha Stuart passed away from breast cancer at the age of 43 on Wednesday.




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The Voice's Natasha Stuart lost her cancer battle aged 43

Natasha Stuart passed away from breast cancer at age 43 on Wednesday, surrounded by family at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney. 




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The Voice Australia star Sarah Browne discovers skin cancer millimetres from her eye

Sarah Browne, who appeared on season five on The Voice, posted an image showing a spider-like scar on her nose on social media.




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Cancer survivor Ursula Martin walks from Ukraine back to the UK

For just over a year, former baker Ursula Martin, 39, from Derbyshire, has been walking by herself from Ukraine back to the UK while fundraising for Target Ovarian Cancer.




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Golf news: World No 5 Justin Thomas reveals skin cancer scare

Former World No 1 and 2017 US PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas has issued a warning to fans to get checked for skin cancer after revealing his own melanoma scare.




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Val Kilmer, 60, admits to watching Top Chef because he misses eating food after throat cancer battle

Val Kilmer is opening up about the highs and lows of his decades-long career, as well as his battle with throat cancer.




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New York woman, 101, who survived the Spanish flu and cancer beats coronavirus

New York woman Angelina Friedman, 101, who was born in the height of the Spanish flu in 1918 and went on to survive cancer, beat the novel coronavirus this month.




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Socialist running for Congress says God should give Barack Obama 'the most malignant cancer'

A Democratic socialist candidate running for Congress in Texas wished a deadly cancer upon Barack Obama, and claimed the former president 'gives zero f***s about y'all.'




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Former French Open champion Francesca Shiavone reveals she has overcome cancer

Former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone has been given the all clear following a 'tough battle' with cancer, the 39-year-old Italian has said.




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One-year-old girl rings bell to mark the end of her cancer battle in viral video

Chance Moore, 28, from Hilliard, Ohio, took to TikTok this week to share a video of his daughter Eliza ringing the bell at Nationwide Children's Hospital.




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Sisters diagnosed with rare cancer within weeks of each other reveal only one of them will survive

Julia Gailes, 48, from Co. Durham and Wendy Moffett, 57, from Bishop Auckland, found identical lumps in their breasts just weeks apart. Both have same strain of rare triple negative breast cancer.




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Deborah James and ITV's Helen Addis plead with people not to postpone cancer checks during lockdown

Speaking to Lorraine Kelly on GMB, Deborah James, 38, from London and Helen Addis, from Surrey, explained why people should should not postpone cancer checks because of the pandemic.




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Cancer-stricken girl, 4, breaks down in tears as she is finally reunited with dad in touching clip

Mila Sneddon, from Falkirk, Scotland, stole the hearts of the nation when she was seen kissing her father Scott, 50, through a glass window at the start of the UK's lockdown.




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Cancer sufferer is far from alone in fearing coronavirus will kill thousands with chronic conditions

Jane Dabner, it seems, was regarded as collateral damage in the fight against Covid-19 - one of thousands of NHS patients told their life-prolonging treatments would be cancelled or delayed.




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Patients with blood and lung cancers three times more at risk of dying of coronavirus

A new study led by Wuhan University in China has found that people with blood and lung cancers are three times more likely to die from coronavirus compared patients with other tumors.




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Prostate cancer drugs will be made available before chemotherapy during coronavirus crisis

Two hormone treatments used in prostate cancer patients will be available before chemotherapy, as hospitals try to keep patients away from hospitals during the coronavirus crisis.




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75 coronavirus patients to get experimental HIV and cancer drug this month

Leronlimab is a drug in development for treating HIV and cancer. Two of seven critically ill coronavirus patients who were given the drug were taken off ventilators in a matter of days.




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Couple win £2million Lottery jackpot before son gets cancer all-clear

John and Allison McDonald, of Stockton on Tees, County Durham, matched all six numbers on a Lucky Dip ticket then found out three days later that their son Ewan, 15, was cancer free.




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Jordanian MP who called Israel 'Jewish cancer' welcomed by Labour shadow minister for peace

Yahya Al-Saud (pictured), who is notorious for praising terrorism in Palestine, was greeted at Portcullis House by Labour frontbencher Fabian Hamilton.




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Devoted father battles stage four cancer as his pregnant wife prepares to welcome their second child

Auckland security manager Arlo McDiarmid's life revolved around his wife Isla and baby daughter, Indigo. Their world came crashing down when doctors found tumours all over his body.