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Beauticians are being trained to spot signs of skin cancer, as rates of melanoma have soared by 128 per cent in the last two decades - making it the fifth most common cancer in the UK.

We are the first breast cancer charity in the UK to solely create awareness amongst young people, with the aim of instilling the knowledge and tools they need to get to know their bodies. We like to talk about a serious message in a light-hearted way, empowering people to start healthy habits for life.

Our charity is the future of breast cancer awareness. We’ve educated over 500 million on the signs of breast cancer. Ways you can change the picture of breast cancer for good. There is more than just a lump! Learn about the 12 signs of breast cancer, how to do self-exams and more in just a few minutes.

Two days before Christmas and aged 26, Chris Wark was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. He had surgery to remove a golf ball-sized tumor and a third of his colon. But after surgery, instead of the traditional chemotherapy, Wark decided to radically change his diet and lifestyle in order to promote health and healing in his body. In Chris Beat Cancer, Wark describes his healing journey, exposes the corruption and ineffectiveness of the medical and cancer industries, and shares the strategies that he and many others have used to heal cancer. These strategies include: - adopting the Beat Cancer Mindset - radical diet and lifestyle changes - mental, emotional and spiritual healing - advanced integrative therapies. Dually packed with an emotional punch and extensive healing solutions, Chris Beat Cancer will inspire and guide you on your own journey toward wellness.

About Cancer Hair Care UK's leading hair loss support charity A warm welcome. We understand that hair loss subjects such as scalp cooling, new hair growth, scalp care, wigs and headscarves can all seem a mystery. Help is at hand, with our expert and caring advice and ideas, emotional support and practical advice, we hope our Cancer Hair Care information website and services will help you to feel confident through your illness and into recovery.

To reduce your risk of exposure to chemicals that may be linked to breast cancer, try to avoid products containing the chemicals shown here. Natural cosmetics, free from harmful substances, are readily available, or you can make your own. For more information visit: www.breastcanceruk.org.uk

Honestly Healthy is the original alkaline diet cookbook, packed with recipes, tips and tricks to help you look and feel great. Whatever your needs – be it a short cleanse or total eating habit overhaul – Honestly Healthy has the right plan for you.

Author David-Servan Schreiber is an academic physician with a wealth of experience in the field of integrative medicine. He will show you how, through simple alterations in diet, lifestyle and attitude, you can tackle cancer alongside conventional treatments, or even avoid it altogether. This is not a biology textbook, but a practical, insightful and individual guide that will allow you to make the best choices for your own health and well-being.

Created to help anyone whose life has been affected by cancer, this in-depth resource offers interviews with both allopathic and integrative medical experts; remarkable accounts from people who transcended "terminal cancer" and are now thriving, snapshots of progressive treatment techniques; and insights into other key factors that can affect well-being--including thoughts, emotions, and diet.

Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer. Lucy O'Donnell was herself three years ago. Cancer is My Teacher is her story, describing unflinchingly how she has turned the disease into a positive experience - and how you can do the same. Lucy's approach is determined but disciplined, clinical but also holistic.

In this groundbreaking book, Professor Plant details her own experiences of suffering with breast cancer, and how she learnt of the relationship between cancer and diet. The book explains the science behind the 'no dairy' diet and gives practical advice on how diet and lifestyle changes can help prevent and overcome breast and ovarian cancer.

In Emotional Wellness: The Other Half of Treating Cancer, cancer psychotherapist Niki Barr, describes the emotional side of treatment to guide you through diagnosis, medical treatment, and beyond. This groundbreaking book gives you effective, easy to use tools to manage your journey through cancer with confidence and calm.

"What is Cancer?" is a 3D Animation which depicts the growth of a tumor.

How do cancer cells grow? How does chemotherapy fight cancer (and cause negative side effects)? The answers lie in cell division. George Zaidan explains how rapid cell division is cancer's "strength" -- and also its weakness.

An introduction to what cancer is and how it is the by-product of broken DNA replication. Created by Sal Khan.

An animation/video teaching the basics of how cancer forms and spreads. Topics include: mutation, tumor suppressors, oncogenes, angiogenesis, apoptosis, metastasis and drug resistance.

Have you ever wondered how cancer grows? Take a close look at the cancer cell division in this realistic 3D animation. Compare and contrast healthy animal cell division to unregulated cancer cell division side-by-side for a deeper understanding of cancer tumor growth.

Harvard Medical School video explains what cancer is and how it begins

Cancer usually begins with one tumor in a specific area of the body. But if the tumor is not removed, cancer has the ability to spread to nearby organs as well as places far away from the origin, like the brain. How does cancer move to these new areas and why are some organs more likely to get infected than others? Ivan Seah Yu Jun explains the three common routes of metastasis.

Heart Matters is our award-winning free magazine for anyone with heart and circulatory diseases like heart disease, stroke, vascular dementia and their risk factors like diabetes.

We are the UK’s only cholesterol charity. We provide expert support, education and influencing services to healthcare professionals and people and families with concerns about cholesterol.

Coronary heart disease is a condition in which fatty substances build up inside the arteries that run to your heart. This makes them narrower, which can reduce the supply of oxygen to your heart. You may not get any symptoms if you have coronary heart disease. But it may lead to angina (pain in your chest) or breathlessness, and there’s a risk you could have a heart attack.

This ground-breaking book reveals the true causes of heart disease and offers a myriad of solutions for maintaining a healthy heart, including the drugs to avoid, the lifestyle habits to embrace, the foods to enjoy or avoid, the supplements and alternative remedies to take, and much more. Most importantly, it reveals that it's never too late to make beneficial changes to control - and even reverse - the symptoms of heart disease.

See how getting a dog could help prevent heart disease, plus more heart-friendly habits you can adopt today.

In this special series, ReachMD examines the reasons behind the dropping rates of death from heart disease: more effective medications, smarter technologies, more efficient treatment guidelines and much more.

A range of podcasts around cardio-vascular disease and how to strengthen and improve your heart health.

There are many different heart conditions and problems. Together we call them Heart Disease.

When you're saving lives on a daily basis you want to be performing at your best. This heart doctor uses Headspace to get in the zone.

A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people touched by diabetes. We offer a unique mix of the latest diabetes news, views, and reviews. We also act as a strong voice of patient advocacy, working to foster innovation in diabetes care.

In this highly actionable guide, he shares the food, mindset, exercise, and sleep strategies that have had the biggest positive impact on his diabetes - and hopefully yours too! Bright Spots & Landmines is filled with hundreds of effective diabetes tips, questions, and shortcuts, including what to eat to minimize blood sugar swings; helpful strategies to feel less stressed, guilty, and burned out; and simple ways to improve exercise and sleep.

DRWF is a registered charity (No. 1070607) and company limited by guarantee (3496304) set up in 1998 to raise awareness of all types of diabetes and associated complications; provide information and support to promote good self-management and to enhance quality of life.

Silver Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Awards (Health & Fitness) of the Independent Book Publishers Association Diabetes Head to Toe is an invaluable resource for anyone living with diabetes. It includes everything you should know about the disease―straight from the experts. The authors, all doctors who specialize in diabetes care, offer simple explanations and essential advice on all things diabetes.

This inspiring, dignified and deeply moving personal account of a family coming to terms with the diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes for both husband and daughter has been written for three purposes: - to encourage other families affected by this serious lifelong medical condition to rebuild their lives after diagnosis - to make the wider community aware of the challenge of living with Type 1 Diabetes - to raise money for research into a cure for Type 1 Diabetes

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Listen in as a doctor and a person with diabetes chat about new diabetes science. Cohosts Neil S. Skolnik, MD, professor of family and consumer medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, associate director, family medicine residency program, Abington Memorial Hospital, and Kelly Rawlings, PWD, editorial director of Diabetes Forecast magazine, discuss highlights from the American Diabetes Association's professional scientific journals.

A variety of podcast covering the impact of being diagnosed with Diabetes, through to best treatment, management and prevention of.

Diabetes.co.uk is a community of people with diabetes, family members, friends, supporters and carers, offering their own support and first hand knowledge.

Diabetes has become one of most common long term health conditions. In the UK, approximately 1 in 20 people have diabetes.

Shoppers got more than they bargained for when they visited pop-up designer shoe store, Amp Shoes, just off Brick Lane in London’s East End.

Many people with diabetes can suffer from the stress of having such a long-term disease, and having to manage it every day.