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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…

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…

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…

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.

The charity is launching a new 31,000 mile walking challenge to help raise funds for world-leading cancer research.

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…

Liz Liversedge, 67, visited Parliament on No Smoking Day to share her experience of quitting smoking through the Yorkshire Stop Smoking Study, funded by Yorkshire…

People in South Yorkshire with ‘red flag’ bowel cancer symptoms could bypass the GP and be fast-tracked to hospital for diagnostic tests as part of a new research…

National stop smoking campaigns are a “missed opportunity” to direct people to more effective local support services, according to Yorkshire Cancer Research.
People…

Yorkshire Cancer Research is seriously concerned about the potentially detrimental impact a tax on vapes could have on people with low or no incomes who want to give up smoking.

More than half of people with prostate cancer in Yorkshire are diagnosed at a late stage when there are fewer treatment options available, according to new analysis…

Awareness of prostate cancer reached an all-time high in 2018 thanks to celebrities like Stephen Fry and Bill Turnbull, who shared their personal experiences and…