The musician, whose real name was Paul Spencer, was diagnosed with stage four rectal cancer in 2023
Paul Spencer, the dance music producer known as Dario G, has died at the age of 53.
The musician was diagnosed with stage four rectal cancer in 2023 and regularly posted about his condition on social media.
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University Hospitals Sussex admits errors, failures and surgeon disagreements in case of Ken Valder
A troubled NHS trust has apologised to the family of a man who died after a series of delays led to him waiting 254 days for surgery to remove a tumour in his oesophegus.
Before he died in November 2022, Ken Valder, 66, a former tax inspector and voluntary steward at Brighton & Hove Albion football club, complained of βdelays after delayβ to his treatment.
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Catherine takes part in trooping the colour for kingβs official birthday but has said she is βnot out of woods yetβ
The Princess of Wales watched the spectacle of the trooping the colour ceremony from the windows of a major generalβs office, along with her three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, in her first public appearance since revealing her cancer diagnosis.
Catherine, who wore white with navy details, was seen earlier smiling and talking to her children, who were dressed in navy and white, in their carriage before they arrived at Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall. The Princess of Wales, who is the regimentβs colonel, also wore an Irish Guards regimental brooch. They were cheered by crowds in the Mall as they left Buckingham Palace.
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Stephen Massey has taken on role at GenesisCare, which reports increased demand βas a result of NHS backlogsβ
The Conservative partyβs chief executive has taken on a senior role at a private cancer care firm that said in its annual report it had benefited from soaring NHS waiting times.
Stephen Massey was appointed CEO of the party in November 2022, months after he donated Β£25,000 of his personal wealth to support Rishi Sunakβs first, and unsuccessful, bid to become Tory leader.
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Waiting list in England is almost three times the 2010 figure, while satisfaction levels have plummeted
If ever a saying fitted the claims made in an election cycle it must be the famous Mark Twain line about βlies: lies, damned lies, and statisticsβ.
If you tuned into the Sky leadersβ event on Wednesday or the ITV head-to-head that preceded it you could be forgiven for thinking that the NHS waiting list in England is increasing and decreasing all at the same time.
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Pennsylvania families worry about rising cases of rare cancer with well pads near homes and stalled House bills
One evening in 2019, Janice Blanock was scrolling through Facebook when she heard a stranger mention her son in a video on her feed. Luke, an outgoing high school athlete, had died three years earlier at age 19 from Ewingβs sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.
Blanock had come across a live stream of a community meeting to discuss rare cancers that were occurring with alarming frequency in south-western Pennsylvania, where she lives.
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Studies sound alarm at state of cancer care with hundreds of thousands waiting months to start essential treatment
Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to wait months to start essential cancer treatment, with deadly delays now βroutineβ and even children struck by the disease denied vital support, according to a series of damning reports.
Health chiefs, charities and doctors have sounded the alarm over the state of cancer care in the UK as three separate studies painted a shocking picture of long waits and NHS staff being severely hampered by a worsening workforce crisis and a chronic lack of equipment.
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World Health Organization report calls on governments to impose tougher regulation of health-harming products
Tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and fossil fuels kill 2.7 million people a year in Europe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which has called on governments to impose tougher regulation of health-harming products.
In a groundbreaking report , the WHO said powerful industries were driving ill-health and premature death by using βmisleadingβ marketing and interfering in governmentsβ efforts to prevent killer diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
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