All Sections
News you can trust since 1754
BREAKING

Yorkshire Cancer Research

Hannah Russell who is an author of children's books and runs Swinton Green Animal Experiences, near Masham. Hannah with Alf her Shetland pony who features in one of the books.

The cancer survivor and author who has set up a farm attraction in the Dales

A teenager pictured vaping. PIC: Alamy/PA.

Disposable vapes play a role in saving lives - Dr Stuart Griffiths

Yorkshire Cancer Research is helping fund the fight and discover cures: here’s how you can help

Ad Feature Yorkshire: locals urged to make an impact in the fight against cancer

Bridlington mother Hayley Cragg with son Louie, now 13 months. Picture by Stephen Roe.

Yorkshire mum who diagnosed with cancer while pregnant to star in TV advert

Arwel Lyn David Price.

Charity concert pays tribute to a ‘wonderful’ Opera North musician

Sir Alan Langlands, former Chief Executive of the NHS and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, is the new chair of Trustees at Yorkshire Cancer Research. photographed for The Yorkshire Post by Tony Johnson in Harrogate. 27 January 2023.

'Unacceptable' funding reductions to NHS, says former boss

Sir Alan Langlands, former Chief Executive of the NHS and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, is the new chair of Trustees at Yorkshire Cancer Research. He spoke to The Yorkshire Post about his grave concerns for the NHS, pointing to serious underfunding.

If former NHS ceo is worrried about the NHS, we should all be worried

Sir Alan Langlands, former Chief Executive of the NHS and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, is the new chair of Trustees at Yorkshire Cancer Research. Photographed for The Yorkshire Post by Tony Johnson in Harrogate.

New Yorkshire Cancer Research chair Alan Langlands on his amazing career journey

Harry Tanfield supporting the campaign.

Cycling brothers Harry and Charlie Tanfield support cancer charity campaign

Ryan Grainger is set to appear in an advert about his experience with cancer

Yorkshire farm worker opens up on how cancer changed his outlook on life

60,000 fewer mammograms took place in Yorkshire during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic Picture Rui Vieira/ PA Archive/PA Images

More than 500 women in Yorkshire may have missed out on breast cancer diagnosis

There are new arrivals at the farm on the M62

Winter weather thwarts intruders at the farm on the M62

Ripon Cathedral lit by stars

Ripon Cathedral lit up with 2,000 stars in moving charity tribute

New ways are needed to treat cancer in the wake of the Covid pandemic, writes Dr Kathryn Scott.

How Yorkshire Cancer Research wants to speed up treatment after pandemic – Dr Ka...

Visitors take a walk along York's city walls

Five urban walks in Yorkshire to discover more about our historic cities

RSBP Bempton Cliffs, near Bridlington, which is home to around half a million seabirds between March and October.

Five accessible walks in Yorkshire to try this bank holiday weekend

Yorkshire residents have an ‘it won’t happen to me’ attitude in life – including...

Mandy Moody Yorkshire Cancer Research's Walkshire with Welcome to Yorkshire Picture: Jonathan Pow/jp@jonathanpow.com

How running has helped Yorkshire mum deal with cancer diagnosis

Vaping will 'massively cut the harm you do to your body', doctors say Credit: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

New film by cancer charity explores the myths about vaping

There was a drop in the number of people diagnosed with bowel cancer in the first lockdown, a new study reveals

Fears that lockdown will lead to increase in bowel cancer deaths, says study

Yorkshire Cancer Research's director of research Stuart Griffiths has warned that any slowdown in research is a slowdown in tackling cancer.

Warning over potential impact of delays on cancer research as projects slowed
The human cost of delays in vital research is impossible to calculate, a director for Yorkshire Cancer Research has said, but it is what plays on his mind.

Anita Bowerman and Fiona Green

How a Harrogate artist is helping to give cancer the boot

Screening rates vary across the region. Picture: Adobe Stock

'Pain and discomfort' putting off women attending cervical screening, Leeds stud...

Walkers near Leighton Reservoir, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England, UK Picture: Dave Porter/Adobe

How Yorkshire 'can become known as walking capital of the world'

Harrogate artist Anita Bowerman, pictured with the Welly Art installation at Castle Howard. Picture by Simon Hulme

Castle Howard's new Wellington art installation aims to help give cancer the boo...

Thea Greenwood who has raised more than £1,000 in memory of her auntie who died from breast cancer

Little Thea cycles miles to fight cancer

The Leeds Lung Healthcheck has screened more than 4,000 people for signs of lung cancer. Picture: Yorkshire Cancer Research

Yorkshire 'at the forefront' of cancer research as its ranked second for number ...

Researchers have found the number of people doing physical activity has fallen during the lockdown.

Yorkshire piling on the pounds as activity falls by a quarter during lockdown

A scan as part of the Leeds Lung Healthcheck. Picture: Yorkshire Cancer Research.

'Life-saving' Leeds lung check scans set to resume

Dr Amir Khan. Picture: GPs Behind Closed Doors, Channel Five.

Bradford TV doctor urges people worried about cancer to get checked out

Deaths from prostate cancer are expected to fall. Picture: PA

Prostate cancer deaths expected to fall

Barbara and her granddaughter Liberty

‘I never thought I’d live to see my granddaughter born, now she’s 3,” says woman...
When actress Dame Julie Walters revealed in February 2020 that she’d been diagnosed with bowel cancer, the experience she spoke of felt very familiar to Barbara Hibbert.

Academics from Leeds Beckett University have produced a new resource to aid in fertility decision making after being diagnosed with cancer. Photo credit: Vicky Matthers/Iconphotomedia

New resource to aid fertility decisions after cancer diagnosis

The Driffield Steam and Vintage Rally at the Kelleythorpe showground is one of the biggest events in the area's social calendar

Call to save Driffield Steam & Vintage Rally which faces the axe after 30 years

Dr Stuart Griffiths, Yorkshire Cancer research's Director of Research and Services

Charity's new research director was inspired by the death of cousin

Jo Beagley, from Harrogate, has been living with ovarian cancer for the past three years. She is pictured with husband Robin and her sons are Henry, now 8, and James, now 10, in 2015. Picture: Carl Summerscales

Harrogate cancer patient welcomes news pioneering Yorkshire drug could be used t...

Cancer survivor Ray and his wife Hazel

Affected by cancer? This event could help

Roosters co-owners Tom and Oli Fozard with the brewery's team.

Roosters beer's open day to boost Harrogate charity

Rochelle Gold

YP Comment: Mother's mission to fight cancer

File pic

Charity puts £5m into fight against cancer

Smokers and ex-smokers, aged 55 to 80, will be targeted in a mass screening exercise in Leeds

Mass screening for top cancer killer

There were 5-6,000 alcohol-related cancer deaths in Yorkshire between 2012 and 2014 Picture: Johnny Green/PA Wire

'˜Strong evidence' linking alcohol with seven cancer types

Don't miss vital screening tests, urged mum after cancer diagnosis

Email your letters to us!

Letter: Thanks for great support

Jo Kersley with her four children

MUM of four's skin cancer warning

Sir Michael Parkinson is patron of Yorkshire Cancer Research.

Sir Parky wants to chat about raising cancer awareness in Yorkshire

Picture: PA

Funding injection provides major boost in the fight against cancer in Yorkshire

Experts join to tackle Yorkshire's biggest cancer killer

Models at the award winning independent fashion store Robinson's of Bawtry which is gearing up for it's annual fundraising fashion show. Picture Scott Merrylees SM1009/59a

Fashion store set to break £300,000 charity total with show

Charles Rowett, of Yorkshire Cancer Research, addresses the press at Leeds St James's Hospital with Dr Yvette Oade, of Leeds Teaching Hospitals, and Professor Paul Stewart, from the University of Leeds. Picture by Simon Hulme.

£5million cancer research project to tackle ‘alarming’ north-south cancer divide

A consultant analyses a mammogram. Photo: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Action needed to stop region’s ‘perfect storm’ of cancer causes

Doctors launch £1.5m trial to find out if fish oil can improve cancer survival

220115 YEP reporter Jonny Brown looking at a cross section of a bowel on the Power wall in the Pathology lab in the Welcome Trust Brenner building at St James Hospital in Leeds . (GL100468d)

Health: Getting to the bottom of bowel cancer

220115 YEP reporter Jonny Brown looking at a cross section of a bowel on the Power wall in the Pathology lab in the Welcome Trust Brenner building at St James Hospital in Leeds . (GL100468d)

Getting to the bottom of bowel cancer

Researchers to harness smallpox vaccine virus to fight cancer

Women suffering from ovarian cancer could soon be treated with a pioneering drug discovered by experts in Yorkshire.

Scientists hail world-first cancer breakthrough in Sheffield

Dr Andy Furley with team members Professor Markus Affolter and Professor Gerhard Christofori

Seafaring doctor repays debt
of gratitude to cancer charity

Jenny Moss.

Dedicated to fighting cancer

Charities unite to fund pioneering research into brain tumour treatments

.

Action call to tackle inequalities in region’s cancer death rates