A drug dealing gran is being chased by prosecutors to repay more than £45,000.
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Scottish breast cancer patients will be the first in the UK to get approval for a breakthrough drug which targets the disease when it spreads to the brain.
It is understood 40 women per year with the condition will benefit from Tucatinib.
Until now clinical research didn’t use women who have already got brain metastises.
But the drug produced by Seagen UK Ltd, is the first to successfully trial and give hope to sufferers of HER2-postive breast cancer.
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Research shows it can reduce the risk of death by 52 per cent and extended overall survival by six months.
The Scottish Medicines Consortium approved the drug yesterday.
Cancer patient Lesley Stephen, 56, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2014. It was already in her liver, lungs and bones but a year later it spread to her brain.
She said: "I used to joke my cancer had moved faster than Usain Bolt on a good day but it was really no laughing matter."
Lesley was told she just had two to three years to live but when the cancer moved to her brain a year later she thought there was no hope.
Her doctor had told her to go home and out her affairs in order because prognosis is very poor.
She had 10 sessions of Whole Brain Radiotherapy where she says her brain was "frazzled".
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A drug dealing gran is being chased by prosecutors to repay more than £45,000.
Forensic officers removed a number of bin bags filled with cannabis plants after police busted a large cultivation at a Scots property.
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A woman who smashed her brother round the head with a crowbar and hid a drug-packed Kinder Egg in her private parts has been locked up.
Experts have warned that the Omicron variant of coronavirus "poses a greater risk" to people with blood cancer.
Women who were branded witches and executed in Scotland over 300 years ago suffered Lymes disease, a historian has claimed.
Patients waiting for cataract operations are facing waits of 92 weeks.
While she gears up to interview a host of famous guests as the new host of Life Stories and has plans for a new documentary, 2022 is proving to be a super successful year for ITV presenter Kate Garraway. And while the star is pleased her hard work is paying off, a source tells OK! that the success is "bittersweet" for the star, as her "biggest supporter" – her husband Derek – isn't well enough to "fully see it." Kate, 54, who shares two children with husband Derek, has been open about her family's struggle since her husband of 17 years went into hospital with complications from Covid-19 back in the spring of 2020. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American and UK rights to Hector Barron’s horror-thriller In the Forest, along with U.S. rights to Alice Blehart’s animated film Little Sorcerer. Both titles are slated for a day-and-date theatrical release, with the former from Disrupting Influence to hit screens on January 28, and the latter from Chinese independent animation studio Gold Valley Films to debut on May 6.
A pregnant Scots mum has paid tribute to her ‘selfless’ husband who died just over two weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer.
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