In the past few weeks, a young woman going through treatment for cancer has been sharing her experiences with her followers on Twitter. @bubblybex wanted to make #kickcancer a trending topic to raise awareness and start a campaign. At the weekend they did a tweetathon, getting as many people as possible to use the #kickcancer [...]
Filed under: Cancer, Social Media on January 29th, 2010 | No Comments »
The BBC yesterday published a story on the health section of its news website, titled ‘Cool Idea’ the article goes on to explore scalp cooling and how cancer patient, Melanie Rowland, kept most of her hair by having the treatment whilst undergoing chemotherapy. It is fantastic that a national website with a huge amount of [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
The Government’s Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, has given backing to a call to ban tanning salons from allowing under 18s to use sun beds. There is significant evidence that sun beds increase the risk on skin cancer. A report by Cancer Research UK showed that 6% of children aged 11 to 17 have used a [...]
Filed under: Cancer, Celebrities, News on January 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
We finally magnaged to get hold of the winner from our Spa competition which ran in Real People. The lucky lady is unfortunately a bit camera shy so wasn’t too keen on having any publicity but we really hope she enjoys the weekend mini break to Champneys. She will certainly be pampered at the Spa [...]
Filed under: Competition, News, Scalp cooling on January 4th, 2010 | No Comments »