Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance

06/09/2025

Families & health professionals play a key role in spotting the early signs of childhood such as

🔸Severe headaches,
🔸Unexplained fever,
🔸Unexplained weight loss,
🔸Bone & joint pain.

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05/09/2025

05/09/2025

Help shape the future of breast cancer research by joining ’s Ethnicity and Breast Cancer Patient and Public Involvement Group.

Find out more: https://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/research/ethnicity-and-breast-cancer/oxford-cancer-ethnicity-and-breast-cancer-patient-and-public-involvement-ppi-group

05/09/2025

Blood cancer is what happens when something goes wrong with the DNA in your blood cells.
These blood cells become abnormal, and multiply. These abnormal cells do not work properly, and so your blood is less able to carry out its role in keeping your body healthy, such as by fighting off infections or helping to repair your body.
Around 40,000 people are diagnosed with blood cancer each year in the UK, and about 280,000 people are living with blood cancer.
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04/09/2025

Come and see us outside Boots tomorrow 9-1 at Runcorn Shopping City!

The Cancer Alliance is on the road again – come and speak to the team on Friday 5th September 9am - 1pm at Runcorn Shopping City.

Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance wants to hear from you – about cancer care, cancer treatment, cancer services and answer any questions you have about them.

Tell us about your experience as a patient, carer, family member or friend of someone with cancer.
We will use your views to improve NHS services in your area

04/09/2025

03/09/2025

03/09/2025

Join us for our Annual Members' Meeting here at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

All are welcome to join us at the meeting, whether you're a patient, family member, or a member of the local community. Our Annual Members' Meeting is a chance to bring together our patients and the public with our members, governors and Executive Team as well as our Chair of the Board and our Council of Governors. It is the role of our Council of Governors to hold our leadership team to account and represent the interests of our members. It's also an opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have about The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and how we operate.

The meeting will take place at our Liverpool hospital on Pembrooke Place in Liverpool city centre at 5pm on Wednesday 17th September.

To register your interest in attending and for more information, please email ccf-tr.enquiriesforgovernors@nhs.net or call 0151 318 8110.

03/09/2025

01/09/2025

Do you or your relative live with cancer and another health condition?

We're looking for people to participate in a Liverpool University study. Get in touch with us if you:

- Have a diagnosis of cancer and a health condition that affects how you communicate or think (for example dementia, stroke, Parkinson’s disease)
- Identify as being an ethnic minority and live in the North West
- Over the age of 18
- Are a family carer of someone who has cancer and a co-occurring condition (for example dementia, stroke, Parkinson’s disease)

For more information please call Dr Lena O’Connell on 07503792722 or email lenao@liverpool.ac.uk

29/08/2025

People across Cheshire and Merseyside can share their views about cancer services, treatment, care and support at three roadshows in September.
Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance (CMCA) will meet the public at pop-up events throughout the region, asking people about their experiences of cancer – either concerning them or a loved one, friend or colleague – so that these stories can influence how services are shaped.
People will also be asked if they want to become a patient representative at the Alliance, helping to raise awareness of cancer with the public or being a ‘voice’ of patients when new initiatives on cancer are discussed.
The CMCA roadshows will take place in Runcorn, Liverpool and Chester.
For details, see: https://cmcanceralliance.nhs.uk/news/new-cmca-roadshows-go-out-across-cheshire-and-merseyside

29/08/2025

Thousands more people across England are being referred for potentially life-saving liver cancer checks after Cheshire and Merseyside was one of the areas that led the way with them.
The NHS has expanded its community liver health check programme, where roaming teams offer scans within the community
Last year alone in Cheshire and Merseyside, 4,982 people were scanned, with 95 people found to be positive for liver cancer and a further 160 people at moderate risk of the disease.
Nationally, 113,000 people have had a fibroscan of their liver, and almost 8,500 have been referred on for vital liver cancer checks since the programme began.
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More areas will roll out mobile testing after our region led the way