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Are you a pancreatic cancer patient or a carer for someone with the disease? If so, please can we ask for your help? We need you please to complete our pancreatic cancer patient experience survey about your first symptoms, how you were…

Ali

on 17th August 2015

Nationwide charity Pancreatic Cancer Action, which exists to save lives by driving early diagnosis of the disease, celebrates its fifth anniversary this month. The charity was set up by survivor, Ali Stunt, who has had first-hand experience of the life-changing events of…

Ali

on 10th August 2015

A beautifully written piece from newly diagnosed Kingsley Squire who is a journalist. Kingsley has written for the Daily Express in Bristol, the West Midlands and in Fleet Street before going home to Sidmouth in 1988. Since then he has…

Ali

on 8th August 2015

We are delighted to hear about a potential breakthrough by researchers at St Barts Insitute at Queen Mary University of London. They have found that a three-protein ‘signature’ in urine can  identify the most common form of pancreatic cancer when…

Ali

on 3rd August 2015

This week, NHS England have been reviewing whether the chemotherapy drug Abraxane should remain on the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) in England. Currently, the combination of gemcitabine and Abraxane is routinely available on the NHS in Scotland and Wales but…

Ali

on 31st July 2015

    Tomorrow, NHS England will be reviewing life-extending drug Abraxane.  If they decide to remove it from their list of approved drugs, it means eligible pancreatic cancer patients in England will not have access to a treatment that could provide…

Ali

on 28th July 2015

  Andy Luck was a brave and caring man, who touched so many hearts with his selfless determination to campaign for more funding and awareness of pancreatic cancer, to help patients now and in the future. He spoke out in many…

Ali

on 27th July 2015

SIX STRATEGIC priorities have today (Sunday) been recommended by the Independent Cancer Taskforce to help the NHS achieve world-class cancer outcomes. The cancer report outlines how an additional 30,000 patients every year could survive cancer for 10 years or more by…

Ali

on 19th July 2015

Pancreatic Cancer Action, a national charity dedicated to improve survival rates of pancreatic cancer and ultimately save lives, is delighted to announce today a new Ambassador of the charity, Matt Cronshaw. Lancaster-born Matt Cronshaw is a professional cyclist who is part…

Ali

on 13th July 2015

On Saturday June 6th Team Van Oss walked 19 miles through the  beautiful Cotswolds hills on a "Roman Walk" of roads and ruins as well as the wooded valleys of the Leach and Coln rivers. So far they have raised…

Issy Smith

on 2nd July 2015