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Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2014
Today marks the start of the 8th annual Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, which is a campaign led by the European Cervical Cancer Association (ECCA). In 2011, in the UK alone, 970 women died from cervical cancer, which equates to more than 2 deaths every day. That is a tragically high number given the fact that … Continue reading
HistoQuarterly: CERVIX
Working in a histology lab means that I get to see a lot of what our body looks like under the microscope. Quarterly I will share with you some of my photos from the microscopic world of our inner space and tell you a little bit about what we’re looking at. As it is Cervical … Continue reading
OGG or not OGG? That is the question.
Lung cancer has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers and this tends to be because at the time when symptoms appear it is so advanced there are few treatment options remaining. The saddest fact about this is that the main cause of lung cancer is smoking – a voluntary social habit. But … Continue reading
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