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Congratulations to Winners of Technoprint's Christmas Hampers!
03/01/19
Congratulations to local business owners Ben and Dave, who won special Christmas hampers from Technoprint. The raffle they held to help raise money for our nominated charity of 2018, Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group. An impressive total of 318 pounds was raised from the sale of tickets, which is fantastic. Following generous donations of food items from Technoprint staff, they were also able to raffle off seven festive hampers, so thank you for your generosity Team Technoprint!
Technoprint puts Best Foot Forward for Charity
03/01/19
Congratulations to Technoprint's very own James, Jacqui and Sarah who braved the freezing cold and ran 10k on Sunday 16th December to raise money for their 2018 nominated charity, Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group. The run was to take place at Lyme, but due to the bad weather conditions, the running trio decided to stay local and run to Northwich along the river instead. The times were:
Sarah 56 mins, 22 secs
James 57 mins, 04 secs
Jacqui 1 hour, 24 mins
"It was a tough run both mentally and physically due to the cold temperature and head wind along the river but we did it and have raised 379 pounds so far, with more sponsorship to follow" said Sarah Lloyd, Business Administrator & PA.
Stephen Fry's BBC Radio 4 Appeal for the Prostate Cancer Research Centre
03/12/18
You can listen to Stephen Fry's appeal recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4 using this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001m7z
Stephen Fry and Martin Dallison's appeal for more research into advanced prostate cancer was organised by the Prostate Cancer Research Centre, with whom Tackle will be working more closely in future. More details of the appeal can be found in the attached pdf . For paper copies of the appeal, please email Sonja at slawrence@prostate-cancer-research.org.uk
Or see the Prostate Cancer Research Centre website at https://www.prostate-cancer-research.org.uk/
Leighton Hospital Phlebotomy Nominated for the Nursing Awards 2018
15/11/18
With the help of funding from our Group, the Phlebotomy Department at Leighton Hospital introduced the idea of using a special brightly decorated and equipped room to offer an ‘out of public hours’ clinic for children and adults with learning difficulties. This has been so successful and well received that the family of one patient nominated the clinic at Leighton Hospital for a national Nursing Award in the ‘Learning Disabilities Nursing’ category. Although they did not win, their attendance at the dinner in London in October, helped them to spread the word about their work.
'Three Chairs' for Leighton Hospital and Our Support Group !!!
15/11/18
The Group has donated three specialist phlebotomy chairs to departments within Leighton Hospital. Two will be used by Phlebotomy staff to enhance the service that they offer in both the main department and also the Macmillan Unit. The other specialist chair will be used in the Medical Imaging department to assist with X-rays, CT and MRI scans. Pictured with one of the new chairs already in use in Phlebotomy are Emma Richardson from Mid Cheshire Hospital Charity, Donna George the Manager of Phlebotomy and Clare Cree the PACS Administrator/Office Services Manager in Medical Imaging.
£115 to you for completing a Survey. Do you qualify?
05/11/18
Further to our telephone call - my name is Sue, you have done some paid research for Prostate cancer & I have been asked to recruit some prostate cancer patients for a new study for Adept field solutions We are looking for the following *patients* *x 2 - Non metastatic hormone sensitive * *x 2 Metastatic hormone sensitive* *x 4 Non metastatic castrate resistant * *x 4 Metastatic castrate resistant * * * *Patients need to have taken / be currently taking an Androgen Deprivation therapy (ADT)* The research...
Interesting developments in prostate cancer treatment and research including Stampede Trial - MRC Clinical Trials Unit
05/11/18
The following email from William Everett of the MRC Trials Unit at University College London has been circulated to PC North West members and it might be of interest to you. Hi ,
I’m writing from the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL. We’re a research unit who run clinical trials in cancer, including prostate cancer trials. I wanted to get in touch because we’ve got some interesting developments that the members of PCS might be interested in. STAMPEDE Trial – On Thursday 15 November 2018, 2.15pm – 3.00pm, we'll be running a Twitter Q&A session about the STAMPEDE trial - with the hashtag #BeatProstateCancer.
Bill Turnbull - Chemotherapy "Unbearable"
30/10/18
Bill Turnbull reports on his recent chemo treatment on the BBC News website
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45873804 for more
PCUK Survey for Partners and Family Members
26/10/18
Tackle has sent round this appeal for "people who are or who have been close to somone who has been diagnosed with Prostate Cancer". See email from Tackle Chairman Roger Wotton below. ===========================
PCUK have asked us if we would circulate this request to take part in a survey. I am aware this is to improve the services PCUK offer to those supporting prostate cancer patients but I am also aware that many of our groups make use of PCUK services, hence our agreement to help with the survey.
Spotlight Event at the Christie Wed 7th Nov
26/10/18
Marketing and Engagement at The Christie hospital have announced a talk to be given on Wednesday 7th November in the Education Centre about the redevelopment of the Radiology and CT Scanner department - see below. ====================================================
Dear Christie Member
Spotlight Event - Wednesday 7th November 2pm - 3.30pm
I am pleased to invite you to our forthcoming Spotlight event which will be about the redevelopment of the radiology and CT scanner facility. At the event you will hear consultant radiologist Dr Damian Mullan talk about the planned changes to the radiology department, the installation of a four dimensional CT scanner and the difference it will make to our patients.