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  • Telephone Support Group
    January 2008

    Does breast or ovarian cancer run in your family? Would you like to take part in a telephone support group? This free and confidential group is facilitated by a professional therapist and a genetic counsellor. It offers counselling by conference call, to help you gain support and share experiences from home. Click here for more information.

  • NHS Follow Up Care Survey
    October 2007

    NHS Survey for Patients / Specialist Clinicians / General Practitioners regarding Follow Up care. Please click here for more details.

  • Returning to work following cancer treatment?
    August 2007

    Have you had problems returning to work following cancer treatment? Loughborough University is carrying out a questionnaire survey with the Mental Health Foundation on how people adjust to work following a period of absence due to illness. Click here for more details.

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  • The pill and ovarian cancer
    January 2008

    An article in The Lancet by the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of ovarian cancer confirms that use of oral contraceptives confers long term protection against ovarian cancer which can continue for up to 30 years after finishing the contraceptive. The study, which used 45 studies from 21 countries, suggested that 200,000 cases of ovarian cancer may have been prevented to date. More information can be found here.

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