Live in care at Home – Elderly home care blog

One in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer during our life.
The disease tends to affect older people – but can strike at any time.
Excluding certain skin cancers, there were more than 270,000 new cases of the disease in 2001 – and the rate is increasing by about 1% a year.
Some cancer, [...]

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A man has said his lung was needlessly removed by doctors after he was wrongly diagnosed with cancer.
Laurence Ball, who lives in Shetland, had surgery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary to remove a tumour on his lung.
But Mr Ball, 58, was later told there had never been cancer in the organ. He is now [...]

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