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Sep 12
95% of Scottish Cancer Patients are Positive About their Care
Encouraging news for cancer care in Scotland - the 2024 Cancer Patient Experience Survey shows that 95% of cancer patients have expressed...
Mar 27
Brain Tumour Awareness Week
Yesterday I spoke in a debate on the above. Brain cancer kills more people under 40 than any other cancer. Brain Tumour Awareness Month...
Apr 24, 2023
Teenagers and Young Adults with Sarcoma
It’s Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month and Kenneth met with national bone and soft tissue cancer charity Sarcoma UK to...
Feb 17, 2023
LESS SURVIVABLE CANCERS DAY
The six deadliest cancers are lung, oesophageal, brain, stomach, liver and pancreatic. Yet despite accounting for 40% of all cancer...
Dec 9, 2020
Health Secretary announces new £114.5 Cancer Recovery Plan
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman MSP has announced the SNP Government’s new Cancer Recovery Plan, with investment of up to £114.5 million...
Jun 4, 2020
Framework for Recovery of Cancer Surgery published
New guidance has been published to help NHS Scotland prioritise those most in need of cancer treatment. Whilst the majority of cancer...
Jan 23, 2020
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust Reception in Scottish Parliament
On 23 January Kenneth co-hosted a reception for Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust in the Scottish Parliament, together with Monica Lennon MSP....
Sep 25, 2019
Celebrating the 822 Potential Life-Savers in Cunninghame North
Kenneth Gibson MSP attended an event at Holyrood to celebrate the number of potential stem cell donors on the Anthony Nolan register....
Aug 23, 2019
£18 Million Funding for Personalised Cancer Support
A new £18 million partnership between the SNP Government and Macmillan Cancer Support will make Scotland the first country in the UK to...
Mar 27, 2019
Stroke and Heart Deaths in Ayrshire and Arran Fall 43% and 30% in a Decade
Information Services Division Scotland figures show that in relation to Ayrshire and Arran over the last ten years cancer mortality has...
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