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Cancer Revolution Exhibition

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
  • Real stories from people affected by cancer
  • Groundbreaking science that’s shaping the future of treatment
  • Interactive exhibits that let you explore how cancer works
  • The surprising truth about prevention, early detection, and personalised treatment
  • Hope – through the power of research

https://breakthroughcancerresearch.ie/cancer-revolution/

Building Supportive Communities for Patients Navigating Cancer

Key Takeaways
  • Stage 4 cancer patients often find more relevant information from peers than healthcare providers, highlighting the importance of community connections.
  • The cancer community’s collective wisdom aids in finding appropriate care, resources, and support for patients and their families.
  • Despite the loneliness of a cancer diagnosis, being part of a supportive network ensures individuals are never truly alone.
  • The willingness of cancer advocates to share knowledge and resources is invaluable in helping others navigate their diagnosis and treatment journey.

https://www.curetoday.com/view/building-supportive-communities-for-patients-navigating-cancer

Clinical “noise” in medicine: it’s not what you think

“Women are NOT just men with boobs and tubes.”

“We have our own anatomy and physiology that deserve to be studied.  One of the biggest and most flawed assumptions in medicine is:  if it makes sense in a male body, it must make sense in a female one, too. But in every aspect, our current medical model is based on, tailored to, and evaluated according to male standards.”

Clinical “noise” in medicine: it’s not what you think

#Cancer Revolution

If you are in Dublin over the coming weeks, please call to @BreakthroCancer#CancerRevolution exhibition which opens today.

Read the inspiring stories, get to see what is being done in #research.

1/2 of us will get a #cancer diagnosis

Putting Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer on the Map

A recent survey reveals the extent of the issue: 75% of EOCRC patients saw at least two doctors before receiving a diagnosis, and 20% saw four or more. These delays, often driven by medical bias, can be life-altering.

Putting Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer on the Map: A Milestone Moment at ESMO GI 2025

Randomised Trials and Their Role in Modern Healthcare!

A free online course in Randomised Trials and Their Role in Modern Healthcare! – No prior knowledge needed – At your own pace and takes approximately 5 hours – This course is free to access on FutureLearn Learn more/enrol at:

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/randomised-trials-and-their-role-in-modern-healthcare

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

We are pretty new at all of this, but we can do better.

Honoring and embracing those with more wisdom and experience seems like a win-win.

Fighting and fearing a natural process that only occurs if we have been fortunate enough to stay living, in spite of near misses and close calls and the dangerous risks we have been known to take, holds us all back.

https://gratefulbloomer.com/blog/better-older-than-deader

Storytelling for human well-being

When we attend to both the story and the body that tells it, we move beyond treating disease. We accompany people. We don’t just understand symptoms — we begin to understand lives.

Illness lives in the body — and so does the story of it. You can hear it in a pause before someone answers. You can see it in the way they shift in a chair, the tightness in a jaw, the way breath catches or slows. These are not incidental details. They are part of the narrative, carrying meaning that lab results and scan reports can’t capture.

This is embodied storytelling: when words and the body work together to communicate the lived experience of health and illness.

https://open.substack.com/pub/patientvoicecollective/p/the-bodys-unspoken-story-how-illness?r=51dldg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/narrative-embodiment-and-health/2025-06