Lots of talk of new (and old therapies, statins cough) at the #Hukconf but in case you're unsure how they work but are too afraid to ask, great illustration highlighted by Prof Susanne Greber-Platzer
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#Sarcoma is a type of cancer that can appear anywhere in the body.
Every day, 15 people are diagnosed with sarcoma in the UK. That’s about 5,300 people a year.
There are two main types:
soft tissue sarcoma
bone sarcoma (also known as primary bone cancer)
#awareness_campaign
Alcohol is a causal factor in more than 60 medical conditions, including: mouth, throat, stomach, liver and breast cancers; high blood pressure, cirrhosis of the liver; and depression.
#gpnsnn#hypertension#nhs@AlcoholChangeUK@NHS
In the UK, data shows that in 2020 there were 8,974 alcohol-specific deaths, This is a 18.6% increase in deaths from 2019
This is such a big increase and we don't have the data available yet for 2024 but this will have increased further.
#gpnsnn#alcoholawareness
#talktous
The ‘Talk To Us’ campaign was initiated on July 5, 2016, by a charity organization called The Samaritans.
Samaritans received 5,100,000 requests for assistance in 2014, via phone, email, text, letter, minicom, Typetalk, face-to-face, work in prisons
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