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Exercise treatment should be available to all people with cancer – charity claims
Yorkshire Cancer Research plans to take its Active Together service to people with cancer across the regionThe independent charity aims to create the largest global…
Yorkshire bus company announces charity partnership with Yorkshire Cancer Research
Yorkshire Cancer Research has been named as the charity partner of Transdev bus company ahead of an exciting year of fundraising.
The partnership will help raise…
East Yorkshire woman diagnosed with cancer twice to walk a marathon a week for new charity campaign
Allyson Kent, 60, is taking part in Yorkshire Cancer Research’s ‘We Walk for Yorkshire’ challenge after being treated for cancer twice.
Her marathon challenge…
Stop smoking support alongside lung screening could save lives
Offering stop smoking support alongside the new national lung screening programme has the potential to save lives, according to new research.
A study funded by…
Yorkshire author struck twice by cancer to ‘Walk for Yorkshire’ as part of new charity challenge
A Yorkshire author who was diagnosed twice with cancer is taking on a 150-mile challenge to help raise funds for vital research.
Yorkshire Cancer Research welcomes latest move towards a ‘smokefree generation’
Yorkshire Cancer Research welcomes news that MPs have voted in favour of increasing the age of sale for cigarettes, meaning a ‘smokefree generation’ is one step…
"Screening is the reason I’m here today”: Leeds woman urges people to take part in screening after being diagnosed with bowel cancer
A Leeds woman is urging people to take part in bowel screening after recent analysis by Yorkshire Cancer Research shows a quarter of eligible people in Yorkshire do…
Life-saving clinical trial screens more than 8,000 people in Leeds for signs of lung cancer
A pioneering clinical trial has screened more than 8,000 people for lung cancer in the five years since it first launched.
The Leeds Lung Health Check, funded by…
Easingwold volunteers raise £1,500 for world-leading cancer research with brass band concert
A group of volunteers in Easingwold have raised more than £1,500 to help fund world-leading cancer research by organising a ‘Beat the January Blues’ evening.
Yorkshire Cancer Research launches new ‘We Walk for Yorkshire’ challenge
The charity is launching a new 31,000 mile walking challenge to help raise funds for world-leading cancer research.
Yorkshire Cancer Research opens doors of new charity shop in Yeadon
People in Yeadon now have the opportunity to support pioneering cancer research with the opening of a new charity shop on the town’s high street.
The first…