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Stafford Hospital targets bowel cancer in under60s

Stafford Hospital has become the first in the UK to employ a dedicated nurse for bowel cancer in the under 60s Cancer support charity Macmillan has supplied the nurse who will look for the condition in people as young as 18 to the Mid Staffordshire Trust The post is partly funded by a charity run by Christine Woodward whose son died from t... Read More

Concerns in UK over feeding tube diet

Dieticians have warned of the dangers of losing weight with a starvation diet available in Britain for the first time The British Dietetic Association BDA says there are huge risks to the diet in which people are given just 130 calories a day through a feeding tube that goes up their nose and down to their stomach The 10day regime forces the ... Read More