The ‘You Need to Know’ womb cancer awareness campaign, which is helping to save lives in north east London, has been recognised in The Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind.

On Wednesday 5 July 2023, the 75th birthday of the NHS, the North East London Cancer Alliance brought together cancer staff from across north east London for a unique engagement event to look at how we can make positive changes to treatment and care for cancer patients.

North East London Cancer Alliance has funded a project being run by CATTs (Cancer Awareness for Teens and Twenties) that is delivering a series of engaging cancer awareness workshops to Year 10 and Year 11 pupils in secondary schools in the boroughs of Redbridge and Havering.

On 29 June 2023, North East London hosted a special cancer clinical nurse specialist conference, to recognise the great work of our cancer CNS staff and all they do to support patients with cancer.

July is Sarcoma Awareness Month, and the Transforming Cancer Services Team (TCST) will be supporting the event and this years’ theme of driving action for earlier diagnosis of the disease.

Recent national statistics for cancer show that North East London Cancer Alliance is the top performer in a number of key metrics, reflecting the ongoing work to improve cancer services for local residents across north east London.

A couple from Havering, north east London, tell us how getting checked early for prostate cancer can save lives. 

MECC Link London is an online resource which provides details of local health and wellbeing services in all 33 London boroughs, as well as information on key healthy lifestyle topics and a wide range of primary self-care tools and resources.

26 April is National Cancer CNS Day where we celebrate the incredible work of our cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs).