Tag: cancer

Iain Banks inspiring space travel

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 26, 2015

SCOTS writer Iain Banks is helping to inspire space travel - less than two years after his death. The celebrated science fiction author has been...

Edinburgh Uni study finds new strategies for battling cancer

In Brief

Deadline News Journalist - November 24, 2014

A recent study at The University of Edinburgh has found a class of anti-cancer drugs currently in development may be more effective in fighting...

Daughter reunited with dad – two days before he dies

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - October 27, 2014

A DAUGHTER was reunited with her father after 43 years apart - only for him to die two days later. Mary Garcia flew 4,600 miles...

Delight as Mackenzie, 10, “beats cancer’s butt”

Local News

Deadline News Journalist - October 10, 2014

A BRAVE schoolgirl who whose treatment for cancer made Scottish medical history has beaten the disease. Mackenzie Furness, 10, told her delighted fans on social...

10 year old Cancer sufferer Mackenzie goes back to school

Health

Deadline News Journalist - August 19, 2014

A BRAVE schoolgirl yesterday returned for her final year of primary school after completing pioneering treatment for cancer. Mackenzie Furniss became the first person in...

Brave cancer patient, whose “bucket list” touched the hearts of thousands, dies

Scottish News

Peter Laing - January 21, 2014

A BRAVE Scot whose bucket list challenge touched the hearts of thousands has died. Leighanne Easton, from Premny, Aberdeenshire, was diagnosed with a rare brain...

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