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27 February 2019
Funding of up to £1,000 for surgery sector women available
Women & Leadership International is administering a national initiative to support the development of female leaders across the UK’s surgery sector.
The campaign is providing women with grants of up to £1,000 to enable participation in a...
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Posted
08 February 2019
The State of Mouth Cancer UK Report 2018/2019
This report is now available on the Oral Health Foundation website.
A summary of the key findings:
New cases of mouth cancer in the UK have now reached 8,302 a year.
This has increased by 49% in the last decade and by 135% compared with...
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Posted
03 February 2019
HANCUK
The website for this charity is up and running: hancuk.org. This is a charity that is advocating for patients and their carers, raising awareness and providing information to patients and survivors of Head and Neck cancer in the UK.
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Posted
01 February 2019
News from Newcastle upon Tyne
LiTEFORM is a Randomised Controlled Trial of the Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of Low Level Laser in the Management of Oral Mucositis in Head and Neck Cancer Irradiation
Please visit the LiTEFORM website to find out what LiTEFORM is, where it...
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Posted
01 February 2019
Dietary behaviors and survival in people with head and neck cancer
This is an article from the NCBI in the United States
Dietary behaviors and survival in people with head and neck cancer: Results from Head and Neck 5000.
BACKGROUND:
The association between diet and head and neck cancer (HNC)...
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Posted
01 February 2019
Article in The Lancet
This article by Johannes Christiaan Oosthuizen and Jaime Doody may be viewed in full here.
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Posted
01 February 2019
WHO report
Cancer patients in developing nations are being denied basic pain relief, often because of excessive fears about opioid abuse, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
Two-thirds of industrialized countries have oral morphine, an...
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