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Widespread coverage for our ‘lifestyle’ press release

August 13, 2007

Newspapers One thing that’s almost guaranteed to get coverage in the media is a story about cancer rates – a theme we’ll doubtless return to again and again on this blog. So unsurprisingly, last Wednesday’s press release (“Sunburn, smoking, alcohol and obesity fuelling rising cancer rates“) got widely reported in the papers and also on radio and TV.

It’s always interesting to compare the way our stories are reported in different places, and the differing slants different papers put on the same press release.

So with the help of Emma in our Press Office, we’ve put together a selection of links to online versions of the stories. It’s worth having a look at the ensuing debate the ‘comment’ sections (on the sites that have them)…

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Posted by Henry Scowcroft

Fuelling the fire

August 13, 2007

Lung cancer X-ray Lung cancer often isn’t spotted until it has started to spread through the body. This can make the disease difficult to treat, leading to a very poor survival rate. Now scientists in the US have found that damage to a gene called LKB1 might be the key event that fuels the spread of lung cancer.