Campaign for Katie Rees for the drug Avastin and Cancer Drugs fund for Wales
27/04/2012A campaign has been started for the drug Avastin for Katie Rees a bowel cancer patient from Cardiff aged 30 years and for a Cancer drugs fund for Wales. The campaign started/supported by The Pamela Northcott Fund www.pamelanorthcottfund.org.uk founded by Kate Small has recently highlighted on BBC news. The campaign can be followed and supported on Facebook on www.facebook.com/CancerDrugsFundforWales.
Individual cancer funding drug rquests.
01/01/2012The Welsh Health minister has agreed to publish details by each LHB in Wales for individual patient funding requests for high cost cancer and other drugs.Patient confidentiality is paramount and the results will ensure transparancy to the availibility of these drugs compared to the other regions of the UK.
Cancer patient may have to move to England to get her treatment.
22/08/2011Cancer patient Lorrainne Redmond from Cardiff may have to move to England to recieve the life extending drug Avastin currently being denied to patients in Wales due mainly to its cost effectiveness.
The fund currently available in England and Scotland would cost around £10 million.
The NHS in Wales currently underspend its medicines budget by tens of millions of pounds so why cant some of that money be used for the fund.
28/07/2011Bowel Cancer Wales launches campaign for life extending Cancer drugs to be made more widely available..
Bowel Cancer Wales donates 1500.00 to Cancer Research at Cardiff University.
30/04/2011Bowel Cancer Wales has donated £1500.00 to Professor Sampsom at Cardiff University to help fund his research into Bowel Cancer and its Genetic links.
Wales falling behind in bowel cancer screening.
07/04/2011Flexible Simoidoscopy has been recommended by the UK National screening committee to ministers for introduction in England.
Cancer Rally at the Senedd/Welsh Assembly 2011
21/03/2011Cancer Rally at the Senedd calling for an all party Welsh Cancer screening committee to address and regularly review cancer screening services. The event was organised by Jayne Sullivan (the most prominent cancer campaigner in Wales) in association with Bowel Cancer Wales and other Cancer charities and organisations. Watch the video film on you tube listed under Jayne Sullivan-Cancer Rally 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?y=Ozq4BB7z2fc
New website launched called The Cancer Genetic Story Bank
08/12/2010The storybank is simply an online collection of storys about cancer genetics. It consists of digital storys from patients covering topics such as living with the risk of cancer, compiling a family tree, telling a family member about a cancer diagnosis and making decisions about surgery and screening.
www.cancergeneticsstorybank.co.uk
07/11/2010Christmas concert with The Lewis Merthyr Band.
The Rose and Crown Graig raises money for Bowel Cancer Wales.
28/10/2010The Rose and Crown on the Graig raises £400.00 for Bowel Cancer Wales.
Bowel Health test kit available in pharmacies.
15/09/2010Self - check Bowel Health test,£9.99 from High Street pharmacists or www. stressnomore.com
11/09/2010Mr Dukes Triumphant return from his walk around the coastline of Britain for Bowel Cancer Wales. Can be watched on youtube.com under Mr Duke Walks For Bowel Cancer Wales.
Carolyn Robertsons story on how Bowel Screening Wales saved her life.
06/07/2010Carolyn Robertson, a lovely lady from Cardiff, is supporting and promoting the charity with various fundraising events. Carolyn has beaten Bowel Cancer thanks to the Welsh Assembly/NHS screening initiative. Read her full story on her website: www.cardsbycaro.com
Carolyn produces lovely designed cards which can be purhased via her website above. She is donating 20% of her profits on the sale of the cards to the charity Please have a look at her range and help us beat bowel cancer.
Mr Duke walks the coastline of Britain for Bowel Cancer Wales.
14/03/2010David Edwards aged 26 from Cilfynydd Pontypridd is walking the coastline of Britain for Bowel Cancer Wales.He started on 14/3/ 2010 and is walking around 3,000 miles clockwise from Cardiff.He is doing it to raise awareness of the disease after his family had been struck with the illness.It is a tremendous challenge to undertake and at time of writing he is currently in Morecambe Lancashire.He has been interviewed and been followed by Radio Cymru along the way and can be followed on facebook if registered for daily blogs of his whereabouts and how he is getting along on the heading Mr Duke walks the coastline of Britain for Bowel Cancer Wales.
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Energetic pair get their running shoes on in memory of partners late mum.
03/03/2010Two sisters in law are getting set to tear up the streets of Pontypridd as they run 15k in memory of their partners mum.Gemma Bosher -Jarvis and Michele David will don their running shoes on March 20th to raise money and awareness for the Pontypridd based charity."Having lost a close family member to this awfull disease,I want the run to raise local awareness that early screening can catch it in its early stages,prolonging life and improving the survival rate." Gemma said.
02/09/2008"What is very hard for many doctors to do is to have to explain to patients that an appropriate drug treatment for them is too expensive to prescribe.
"The health watchdog NICE is regularly refusing new therapies to treat cancer and uses a cut-off of £28,000 a year as a basis of evaluation. It would be better if it evaluated medicines on the basis of how long they prolong a person's life..."
Taken from a Daily Express interview with Oncologist Dr Justin Stebbings, senior lecturer at Imperial College, London.
Lower age for bowel cancer screening - News Article
05/03/2007Nick Phillips, who is in the process of setting up a new charity - Bowel Cancer Wales - wants to raise awareness about the disease, in a bid to reduce the number of people developing it.
Interviewed byMadeleine Brindley, Western Mail |
Bowel Cancer Discovery by Scientists in Wales
15/02/2007When healthy parents both carry a defective gene called MYH, their children are at very high risk of coming down with bowel cancer, researchers at the University of Wales College of Medicine say in an article in this tomorrow’s eminent ‘ The Lancet’ journal for the medical profession.
14/02/2007An important advance in understanding bowel cancer has been made by researchers at the University of Bristol, UK.