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Mesothelioma UK and Erase Meso award grant for new research into novel drug target for mesothelioma patients
Mesothelioma UK and Erase Meso, two national asbestos-related cancer charities, have agreed to support a six-month research project to the...
Mesothelioma UK awards £37,000 grant funding for new research study into radiotherapy and pain reduction for mesothelioma
Grant will fund new research study at the University of Glasgow looking at why radiotherapy reduces pain for some patients and not others...
Mesothelioma UK CEO receives honorary membership to LCNUK
At its 2023 annual conference in May, Lung Cancer Nursing UK welcomed Mesothelioma UK’s CEO, Liz Darlison as its third honorary member. Lung Cancer...
Mesothelioma UK is calling time on asbestos with new ‘Don’t Let the Dust Settle’ campaign
Mesothelioma UK has launched a new ‘Don’t Let the Dust Settle’ campaign to call time on asbestos by raising awareness of the dangers of asbestos...
Mesothelioma UK nurse shortlisted for British Journal of Nursing award
Sam Westbrook, the UK’s first Peritoneal Mesothelioma Clinical Nurse Specialist, has been shortlisted in the Oncology Nurse of the Year category at...
Expressions of Interest invited from Health Boards in Wales for two mesothelioma CNS posts
Mesothelioma UK, in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, is delighted to invite expressions of interest from Health Boards across Wales to...
Staff at air sampling manufacturer learn how their products help in the fight against mesothelioma
Recently, Mesothelioma UK CEO Liz Darlison, visited SKC Ltd, specialists in air sampling equipment including asbestos sampling and monitoring...
CEO visits asbestos monitor and detector manufacturers, Alert Technology Ltd
Mesothelioma UK Chief Executive, Liz Darlison, recently visited Alert Technology Ltd, developers and manufacturers of the world’s first and only...
New Clinical Nurse Specialist appointed to support patients in Essex
Sam Jayasekara has been appointed as a Mesothelioma UK Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to provide nursing care and support for mesothelioma patients...
Donation received from RS Oncology
RS Oncology, a clinical stage biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the US, donated to Mesothelioma UK to support the charity’s...
Mesothelioma UK and Erase Meso award grant for new research into novel drug target for mesothelioma patients
Mesothelioma UK and Erase Meso, two national asbestos-related cancer charities, have agreed to support a six-month research project to the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences. The project is a collaboration between Professor Mathew...
Mesothelioma UK awards £37,000 grant funding for new research study into radiotherapy and pain reduction for mesothelioma
Grant will fund new research study at the University of Glasgow looking at why radiotherapy reduces pain for some patients and not others Mesothelioma UK has awarded £37,191.51 through its research grant scheme to a year-long study that will investigate why...
Mesothelioma UK CEO receives honorary membership to LCNUK
At its 2023 annual conference in May, Lung Cancer Nursing UK welcomed Mesothelioma UK’s CEO, Liz Darlison as its third honorary member. Lung Cancer Nursing UK had around 300 members and exists to provide a network and support to lung cancer nurses through clinical,...
Mesothelioma UK is calling time on asbestos with new ‘Don’t Let the Dust Settle’ campaign
Mesothelioma UK has launched a new ‘Don’t Let the Dust Settle’ campaign to call time on asbestos by raising awareness of the dangers of asbestos exposure and the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma. The campaign will focus on sharing information about asbestos and...
Mesothelioma UK nurse shortlisted for British Journal of Nursing award
Sam Westbrook, the UK’s first Peritoneal Mesothelioma Clinical Nurse Specialist, has been shortlisted in the Oncology Nurse of the Year category at the British Journal of Nursing (BJN) 2023 awards. Sam is based at the Peritoneal Malignancy Institute Basingstoke, part...