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Kimberley Hattersley-Barton.

'Cancer is a strong word - I still don’t use that word much'

Participants will run past local sights including York Minster for the Yorkshire Marathon and Yorkshire 10 Mile. (Photo by Oli Scarff / AFP via Getty Images)

Yorkshire Marathon Festival 2023: Over 10,000 people expected to take part

Macmillan Charity Raceday has already raised approaching £10m since 1971.

The Macmillan Charity Raceday holds great significance - William Derby

Three University of Bradford student paramedics are planning to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to raise money for charity. The team - known as Par-oar-medics - consists of third-year students Ken Bordt, Tom Dowdy and Ethan Chapman.:Talisker Whisky Challenge

Yorkshire student paramedics plan Atlantic rowing challenge

A team of 60 people from BHP has raised £20,047 for charities across the UK after they completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge.

How a team from BHP raised £20,047 for charity in the Three Peaks challenge

Macmillan has thanked its charity fundraisers in Yorkshire on World Cancer Day.

Macmillan’s thanks on World Cancer Day – Yorkshire Post Letters

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Dianne Lyons, chief executive of Citizens Advice Leeds, said: “This pilot is helping more people get the advice they need, when and where they need it. We know that there are massive economic pressures on people and families within our communities.

Yorkshire Building Society is helping hundreds of families cope with price rises

Ben Green from Hambleton, near Selby, was given a year to live in March 2020 after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. He has outlived predictions and is now walking 300 miles in three months with his brother Tom to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. Pictured with his dog Molly. . Picture : Jonathan Gawthorpe

Nurse given just a year to live before lockdown wants to be beacon of hope

The best non-alcoholic beers and spirits

Sober October for Macmillan: best non-alcoholic beers and spirits

The 12 amateur riders raised more than £150,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support

Stokesley amateur jockey wins the Ride of Their Lives charity horse race

The Government is being urged to act over cancer care provision.

This alarming shortage of cancer nurses demands action – Yorkshire Post Letters

Khalid is walking 13 miles across the Yorkshire Dales for Macmillan

Blind hiker aims to take on the Yorkshire Dales

This was Hollie Doyle after Glen Shiel provided her with the biggest win of her career at Ascot last October.

Sprinter Glen Shiel in ‘great order’ as Royal Ascot date arrives

SPRINT champion Glen Shiel and jockey Hollie Doyle will carry the hopes of a Yorkshire racing syndicate at Royal Ascot next week.

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The ballot results for this year’s marathon will be released online for the first time (Photo: Getty Images)

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There are concerns that many people have delayed coming forward with cancer symptoms over a fear of accessing healthcare settings or a perception they are closed.

Warning over impact of cancer delays which could be seen for 'years to come'

The Covid-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on cancer treatment, the head of a leading charity has warned.

We can’t let cancer become ‘forgotten C’ in face of Covid – Lynda Thomas

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Macmillan Cancer Support worker Helen Jones, who is embarking on ordination training to become a hospital chaplain. Image: Simon Hulme.

Yorkshire mum inspired to become hospital chaplain after breast cancer battle

Katelyn (right) and sister Brooke Powell.

Leeds sisters' cancer charity fundraising walk in memory of grandparents

Alistair and Laura Kettlewell

“Stay at home and save lives,” says dad with terminal cancer in moving video

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Kitty King winning last year's event.

Bramham Horse Trials will be back "beter than ever" after cancellation

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Marcus Beale from Leeds is rowing the Atlantic single-handedly and unsupported Picture People HR

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Thirty teams set off on the world’s toughest rowing race tomorrow and three of them are from Yorkshire. Catherine Scott reports.

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Anne Sheehan has highlighted the work of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Macmillan Cancer Support and backing the most important coffee morning in the wo...

Anne Sheehan, owner of AS Music School in Sheffield, is among those to host events on Friday, September 27, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Thousands across Yorkshire to host events for Macmillan Cancer Support's World's...

Anne Sheehan, backing Macmillan cancer support after the incurable cancer diagnosis of both her parents. She walks to Spain last year, the Camino de Santiago, over 12 weeks, to raise money. Picture: Chris Etchells

Yorkshire daughter's tribute to Macmillan nurses who helped grant dying mother's...

Pseudomyxoma peritonei is a very rare type of cancer, affecting an estimated one in every 1.7m people.

Cancer of the appendix explained - what is pseudomyxoma peritonei?

Lady Halifax in training for the Macmillan Ride of Their Lives.

Lady Halifax’s Macmillan race is a fitting debut - The Yorkshire Post says

'˜How Macmillan helped our family after our daughter was diagnosed with Leukaemi...

Up to 270 lives cut short after breast cancer screening failure

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Doncaster teenager completes 24 hour gaming marathon to raise £300 for RSPCA

Leah Bingham.

Doncaster teen set for 24 gaming marathon this weekend for RSPCA

Doncaster gamer Leah Bingham

Doncaster teenager to take on 24 hour gaming marathon for RSPCA

Sheffield's 'Mad Man With A Pram' John Burkhill.

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Ian Toothill was determined to scale Everest after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Ian Toothill: Why cancer didnt' stop me conquering Everest

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Paul Weller among 41 music giants to sign guitar for MacMillan Cancer Support

OPENING TIME: The garden at Ellerker House, near York

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Bradley Lowery, five, will lead out the teams in Ossett in May.

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Eight-year-old completes senior triathlon for sick grandparents

Julie Walton, 58, shaved her head in aid of her friend and colleague, Tamara Beckwith, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Men over 50 too afraid to visit a doctor - and pay with their lives

Karen McLean, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, says she makes every day count.

'˜I spent a fortune after being told I was dying, then found out I wasn't'

Bracken Ghyll's Will Stoker.

Yorkshire golf: Will Stoker happy to put 108 down as his total at Bracken Ghyll

What now for the future staffing of the NHS?

Why 1.4m people are carers for cancer sufferers

'Ride of their Lives' participants during a training event at York Racecourse, pictured with former champion jockey Kevin Darley. Pictures: Bruce Rollinson.

Amateur riders get star treatment ahead of York charity race

Families '˜cannot afford cancer' - healthcare charity warns

Dying people '˜not getting enough to eat or drink in final days'

Christine Swiers, from Norton-le-Clay near Ripon, is one of 12 amateur riders taking part in Macmillan Cancer Supports annual race at York Racecourse on June 11

Secretary among amateur 12 preparing for racecourse debut

Ann and George Duffield are inviting the public along to their open day.

Flat trainer opens up to fill Middleham void

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