Stephanie Butland

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Cancer Research UK Annual Update

Let’s start the week in a happy place, shall we?

Thank you, Cancer Research UK.
Thank you, people who take part in trials.
Thank you, people who raise money for cancer charities.
Thank you, people who understand that cancer needs to be Dealt With.
(If you’re here, I’m guessing that you are at least one of the above. So [...]

As simple as a signature

Last week, I got an email that made me smile. (Well, another one. There were lots of book-deal-related ones that were very grinny.) It was from Cancer Research UK, and it was about a signature I’d added to an e-petition calling for better, less dangerous radiotherapy with less collateral damage.
Everyone always talks about radiotherapy as [...]

Better than cure

We are woken by Radio 4 every morning, and this morning the first thing that crept into my consciousness was a new report on the causes of cancer. I pricked up my ears – OK, one of my ears, I’m not really a morning person – and discovered that, according to a new report by [...]