One-year cancer survival rates have improved in South Cheshire, latest statistics have shown.
A health partnership between the NHS, local authorities and Macmillan Cancer Support has seen major improvements.
Charitable students in Nantwich hope to raise more than £15,000 for local cancer research projects.
Reaseheath College has named North West Cancer Research as its chosen charity of the year.
A young Nantwich girl has had her lovely locks shaved off to help raise money for Cancer sufferers.
Big-hearted Chloe Marvell’s decision to ‘brave the shave’ has netted almost £600 for Macmillan Cancer Support so far.
Nantwich mother-of-five Denise Thorley had her long locks lopped off to raise money for cancer sufferers.
The music teacher hoped to raise £500 for the Christie Hospital in Manchester – but has doubled that thanks to support from family, friends and piano pupils.
A young cancer patient from Nantwich took part in a four-day adventure with the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust
Ed, 19, joined the trust to take part in sailing, canoeing, high ropes, cycling, archery and orienteering at the Essex Outdoors Centre in Bradwell.
A Willaston woman is shaving her head for charity to support her mum who is losing her hair in a cancer battle.
Louise Maple wants to raise funds for Cancer Research UK while her mum Kay, also from Willaston, fights breast cancer.
Members of Nantwich Christie Hospital Support Group have smashed the £300,000 barrier for funds raised for the Manchester specialist cancer centre.
They have achieved it over two decades of fundraising with a wide range of events.
South Cheshire’s cancer unit has been illuminated purple to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer.
The Macmillan Cancer Unit at Leighton Hospital will be lit purple every evening in November as part of a campaign being run by Pancreatic Cancer UK for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
Patients in Nantwich are being seen and treated for suspected cancer faster than the national average, latest NHS England figures show.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT), which manages Leighton Hospital, has been named as one of the leading trusts in terms of the proportion of cancer patients seen and treated within the expected time frames.
A Nantwich Town football coach has revealed his torment after cancer killed four members of his family in four years. Now Dave Haworth, the club’s goalkeeping coach, is running the Manchester BUPA 10k race on May 18 to raise money in their name.
Nantwich hospital patients will receive improved monitoring for skin cancer thanks to a £5,000 donation. Staff at Barclays Technology Centre Radbroke in Knutsford raised the cash to pay for a new mole mapping machine at Leighton Hospital.
By Laura Normansell A Nantwich fundraising group has taken part in a charity walk to raise vital funds for cancer. Nantwich Christie Hospital Support Group has raised £223,860 for The Christie Hospital in Manchester over the past 19 years.
A former Brine Leas student from Nantwich is gearing up to take part in a 500-mile cycle ride for charity. Lee Comerford is set to clock up the miles on a cycling challenge from Lands End in Cornwall to Windermere in the Lake District.
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