The Cancer Reform Strategy meeting, part of the Westminster Health Forum, was held yesterday at the British Medical Association

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Largest provider of cancer care and best equipped hospital outside the NHS
The Wellington Hospital in North London, Britain’s largest private hospital, is to undergo a major expansion to create a new outpatients and cancer centre

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Ian Sabin and Chris Nutting provide invaluable background. The article on Gamma Knife also includes a video clip featuring Martin Kemp

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The NHS in England must get better at diagnosing cancers at an earlier stage if it is to improve survival rates, the Cancer Tsar has said. Professor Mike Richards

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Expert Comment on Daily Mail Bowel Cancer Story

The entire front cover of the Daily Mail yesterday was devoted to a pharmaceutical company product – Avastin: “Bowel cancer victims denied life-prolonging treatment that’s free in Europe.”

We therefore asked the top London teaching hospital Bowel Surgeon Austin Obichere what was going on here:

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RapidArc – the biggest advance in linear accelerator radiotherapy for many years – has been installed at the Harley Street Cancer Centre,

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In Capital Health has recently published articles on blood tests and other diagnostic tests. The timing is therefore good to learn of a new blood test for colon and bowel cancer. Does this test work? If so, what are the implications?
London bowel cancer expert, Austin Obichere says that this new test for colorectal surgery is [...]

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The Private sector and NHS are joining forces to create the biggest cancer network in Europe. HCA International, which owns six leading private hospitals in London, has joined forces with the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust to develop the first comprehensive private patient cancer treatment centre of its kind in Essex.

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