Take Control

An accessible guide to breast cancer aimed at patients and their families. Patients newly diagnosed will find it a valuable resource for background information. It will help them to cope following a diagnosis, and give them the knowledge to make informed decisions about their treatments.

Award-winning writer Jackie Buxton began her successful blog to write about life as a mother, wife and author, but it soon had a much more serious purpose. In 2013 Jackie was diagnosed with breast cancer, and the blog became not only a place to share her experiences as she battled the disease, bu...

Before becoming an MP, Dan Jarvis was a soldier for fifteen years, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan among other places. Every time he left the family home for a conflict zone Dan knew he was risking his life: many of his contemporaries were badly injured or killed. But he never imagined that the o...

Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline. But the 'War on Cancer' has hardly been won. Dr Jason Fung offers a revolutionary understanding of this invasive, often fatal disease - what it is, how i...

In 'Please Don't Go', former Celtic and Wales soccer star John Hartson documents his fight for life after being diagnosed in July 2009 with testicular cancer, which subsequently spread to his lungs and brain.

One of Ireland's most loved comediennes, Anne Gildea, writes about how her cancer diagnosis coincided with a midlife crisis and depression, and ultimately asks, 'Did cancer save my life?'.