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Part of the NHS Choices site: information, advice and support for carers.
Sections on: Your wellbeing, Carers’ lives, Guide to caring, Work and study, Money and legal.
Prostate Cancer Charity logo.
A message from Sarah Toule, Prostate Cancer Charity …
We are calling on African Caribbean men and women across Hackney who have been touched by prostate cancer to help raise awareness of the disease and the fact that African Caribbean men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men.
We are currently looking for volunteers in Hackney to train as ‘Community Champions’ to give awareness raising talks to the local community or help distribute our information.
We need your help in overcoming the cultural myths and the resistance to talking about prostate cancer in the community and we need men who have already experienced the disease to stand up and say to others that this is nothing to hide from.
For more information please contact Sarah Toule on 020 8222 7149, email olderandwiser@prostate-cancer.org.uk, or visit our Older and Wiser page .
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In their own words:
NHS (National Health Service) MidLifeCheck is a free service to help you find out how you are doing. All your answers are private and no-one else can see your results.
University College London logo.
A message from Dorota Juszczyk, Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London …
We are currently developing a questionnaire on bowel cancer. We are looking to recruit 30 people aged over 50 years who are willing to fill an online questionnaire on two occasions.
The completion of the questionnaire takes between 10 and 15 minutes. As a reimbursement for their time, we can offer 5 pounds that will be paid on completion of both questionnaires.
Dorota Juszczyk,
Cancer Research UK,
Health Behaviour Research Centre,
Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL.
2-16 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT.
Email: d.juszczyk@public-health.ucl.ac.uk .
The best way to contact Dorota is by email.
Virus organisms.
If you think you have swine flu or symptoms such as cough, sore throat, sinusitis, earache and fever … please don’t come to the Lawns. Call your GP.
It’s caught by breathing in droplets when an infected person coughs or by touching contaminated surfaces such as taps, rails or computer keyboards. The virus can live on a hard surface for up to 24 hours and a soft surface for about 20 minutes. Wash your hands thoroughly and regularly clean hard surfaces at home such as door handles.
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Are you aged between 50 and 65 and live in Hackney?
Take the Men’s Health Week Challenge by taking part in a Men’s Health Walk on Monday 15th June.
Meeting 10 am at Rhodes Estate Community Hall, Woodland Street E8 (just behind CLR James Library).
Introduction by the ‘Get Walking Keep Walking Team’. Healthy lunch provided.
Please let us know if you are coming:
