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More dates and locations have been announced in Waltham Forest for our free, easy, painless liver tests. These are for people aged 35-70 who may be at increased risk of liver disease, based on their medical history. 

If you’re 56 to 74, you should have received your bowel cancer screening kit through the post. That’s because the NHS automatically sends a kit every two years to people in that age group.

On 4 February 2024, the cancer community came together to bring the World Cancer Day campaign “Close The Care Gap” to the highest level. Literally.

Thanks to great collaboration and innovation across a wide range of partners over the last year, residents in north east London are benefitting from quicker cancer diagnosis and improved cancer care.

Someone dies of bowel cancer every 30 minutes in the UK. It’s the second biggest cancer killer, but it shouldn’t be, because it’s treatable and curable. Nearly everyone diagnosed at the earliest stages will survive the disease.

On Saturday 9 March 2024 from 11:00 to 18:00, North East London Cancer Alliance teamed up with a host of partners at a special event run by London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the Grocers Wing of Tower Hamlets Town Hall.

A life-saving womb cancer awareness campaign by North East London Cancer Alliance, in partnership with leading gynae charity Eve Appeal and communications agency AKT Health, has been awarded a Bronze award at the PM Society awards on 15 March 2024 in the Diversity & Inclusion in Creative Comm

An innovative cancer test which is a quicker alternative to traditional techniques such as an endoscopy is now available to patients at Whipps Cross Hospital for the first time.

North East London Cancer Alliance has been working with black men to raise awareness of the increased risk of black men getting prostate cancer, which is 1 in 4 compared to 1 in 8 white men.