Young-at-heart Vera Saunderson (72) lives in Carrickfergus. Vera was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2012 and is experiencing first-hand the inequality in accessing life-extending cancer drugs in Northern Ireland. Vera, a widow with two children and four grandchildren, was faced with the dilemma of...
The sun shone for TV weather forecaster Cecilia Daly as she cut the ribbon for the official opening of our new charity shop in Holywood High Street. Cecilia joined shop manager Michelle Fordyce and other members of staff and shop volunteers for the ceremony while customers were treated to special Ca...
Allister Murphy (57), from Newtownabbey, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2008 and has had first-hand experience of the inequality of access to cancer drugs in Northern Ireland. He says: “It was Christmas 2007 at an office party when I noticed a tiny speck of blood in my urine. Years p...
Health Minister Jim Wells has received a 24,000 strong petition supporting Cancer Focus NI’s call for equal access to cancer drugs for local patients. A wheelbarrow load of signatures was delivered by our Chief Executive Roisin Foster and cancer patients Vera Sanderson and Allister Murphy on t...
Health Minister Jim Wells today (7th October 2014) accepted a petition in support of Cancer Focus NI’s Equal Access Campaign. The campaign calls for funding to provide access to cancer drugs similar to that provided for by the English Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). Health Minister Jim Wells accepts the C...
