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Developing excellence in cancer networks, a new report from the Cancer Campaigning Group (CCG), calls for the NHS Commissioning Board to establish cancer networks as Strategic Clinical Networks and recommends a series of quality markers for what cancer networks can achieve when they're working at their very best.

A team of four ex-Royal Marines are celebrating today after completing their Atlantic row challenge over the weekend, raising a phenomenal £120,000 for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

Marks & Spencer employee, ex-Royal Marine and local resident, Graham Witham, is celebrating today after completing his Atlantic row challenge, raising a phenomenal £120,000 for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

Jeremy Laurance raises an important issue about the balance of providing the best quality of care for all patients with value for money for the NHS [Why spare the drug companies? Friday 3 February].  However, we strongly dispute the claim that health charities like ours are helping to bankrupt the NHS by calling for patients to be given access to the treatments they need.

The Prostate Cancer Charity comments on draft guidance issued today by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which proposes that they will not recommend abiraterone - a life extending treatment for men in the final stages of prostate cancer - to be made available on the NHS in England and Wales.