CancerWatch has today written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting MP to urge the Government to take action to improve consumer understanding of the cancer risk associated with alcohol. The link between alcohol and…
This year’s Cancer Prevention Action Week (23rd – 29th June 2025) is focused on the link between alcohol and cancer. And for good reason. Because this link has rarely received the attention it deserves. Some causes of cancer are better…
This week (23rd-29th June 2025) is Cancer Prevention Action Week (CPAW). The focus for this year’s CPAW is that tricky subject – the link between alcohol and cancer. But what’s the purpose of CPAW and why this particular focus? Thinking…
The National Cancer Plan (NCP) consultation was announced earlier in the year and closed at the end of April 2025. Like the consultation for the NHS 10 Year Plan it has attracted enormous interest, not only from health organisations such…
In October 2024, the House of Lords (HOL) Food, Diet and Obesity Committee published a report; Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system. The report highlights an obesity crisis across the country and points to a…
There was some good news before Christmas for anti-obesity campaigners and all those who care about improving the diet of children and young people. The Government announced that it will from now on be harder to open new fast-food outlets,…
This week is cervical cancer prevention week. This is well worth marking, because cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer in women, yet deaths from cervical cancer are among the most preventable. Cervical cancer is the…
We are nearing the end of Stoptober, which means thousands of people across the country will have managed to stop smoking over the last few weeks. If they have, they are now three weeks without smoking and have made it…
The announcement that the new government is considering extending the smoking ban is welcome news, but could it signal a much stronger focus on tackling preventable cancers – one that would have the support across the country and Parliament? It…
There has been a lot of coverage in the press about skin cancer just recently. Bearing in mind, it is August and the long awaited (and no doubt) fleeting British summer has arrived, accessing the great outdoors and enjoying the sun…
