Cancer

Labour leader Keir Starmer has been urged to pledge support for firefghters who have developed cancer or other health issues.

The NHS is rolling out two community-based health screening initiatives in England, targeting new mothers and the over-50s respectively.
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Thousands of lives could be saved from lung cancer if targeted screening programmes for the disease were introduced in Scotland,...

There could be as many as half a million new cancer cases in the UK each year by 2040 unless...

What is occupational health provision like in South Africa? An OH nurse based in South Africa explores the key differences with the UK and reflects on an asbestosis case.

How can employers can support employees with prostate cancer and encourage screening for early detection?

The government has joined forces with the charity Prostate Cancer UK to launch a £42m screening programme to find the...

Nearly two million workers in Great Britain reported suffering from work-related ill health during 2022-23, with work-related stress absence still...

The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has said new figures suggesting nearly one in three deaths from non-melanoma...

Tens of thousands more women at increased risk of breast cancer are to be offered a ‘repurposed’ NHS drug, after...

The UK’s chronic lack of access to dentists, especially NHS dentists, is leading to mouth cancers not being spotted or treated early enough.

An NHS mobile screening project has identified more than 2,200 people in high-risk communities at risk of liver disease and...

Barely half of managers (47%) would feel confident putting in place reasonable adjustments for a colleague with cancer, a study...

More than two million years of people’s lives are lost to cancer in the UK every year, despite significant advances...

A coalition of trade unions have called on major political parties to remove asbestos from public buildings within 40 years.