This post was written by Charlotte Kelley Jones. Charlotte is a postgraduate research (PGR) student within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and School… Read More »What are women’s views of personalised breast cancer risk assessment and risk-stratified breast screening?
Gila Pfeffer is a Jewish American writer and humourist currently living in the UK with her husband and four teenage children. Gila is a 13-year… Read More »Feel It On The First: An interview with breast cancer previvor and survivor Gila Pfeffer
This post was written by Charlotte Kelley Jones. Charlotte is a postgraduate research (PGR) student within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and School… Read More »What will women think about introducing risk-stratification to the NHS Breast Screening Programme? A behavioural science perspective.
A friend of mine in her late 40s has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Fortunately, she spotted it early and it sounds as if… Read More »Breast screening for women in their 40s – what are we waiting for?
Amanda Dibden is a statistician at Queen Mary University of London. Here she highlights the main results from her recently published worldwide review and meta-analysis… Read More »Is mammography screening still worthwhile? The results of a review provide some answers…
Traditionally, January and the New Year is a time for New Year’s resolutions. For many people, their New Year’s resolution revolves around the idea of… Read More »Does a ‘Cancer Prevention Diet’ really exist?
When it comes to health, prevention is better than cure. Over the last 50 years the use of statins, B-blockers and aspirin has prevented half… Read More »Can food supplements help prevent cancer?
The clinical director of the Irish national cervical screening programme Ireland, Dr Grainne Flannelly, resigned at the end of April. It was revealed that she… Read More »To tell or not to tell – what should we do?
