Blog Category: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

Friday is World Ovarian Cancer Day and this gives us the perfect opportunity to focus on a disease that gets very little attention. In the UK, ovarian cancer is considered to be a rare cancer with...

We were recently asked about breast implants and mammograms and in today’s blog we thought we’d address this. A mammogram is an X-ray that is used during the breast screening process to detect breast...

In this week’s blog we speak to the very inspirational Adele Sewell.  Adele was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999 and in 2007 was faced with cancer again when she was diagonsed with...

On Saturday, we attended the Croydon Tabernacle Women’s Breakfast to deliver presentations on both breast cancer and fibroids.  This was a lovely event that brought together the women of Croydon...

March is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in the UK giving us the perfect opportunity to focus some attention on a disease that gets very little attention. In this week’s blog we would like to share...

On Saturday 21st February we continued with our work to raise awareness of prostate cancer amongst black men in Croydon by organising an Understanding Prostate Cancer session at the Pneuma Christian...

This week’s guest blog post comes from Sydney Ross Singer, Medical Anthropologist and Director of the Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease. Sydney discusses the recent media...

Today, we had a great time raising awareness of prostate cancer at our Understanding Prostate Cancer seminar at Trinity Baptist Church. This event was a collaboration between The Lake Foundation,...