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The awards have come in for the men’s health charity drive MOvember 2022. Sponsorship and donations towards the light-hearted competition for growing facial hair support the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre’s programmes. These including free men’s he...

Bermuda’s Movember charity challenge came to its finale with an awards ceremony followed by a celebratory shave-off last night. The annual men’s health drive closed with a bash at Clube Vasco Da Gama in Hamilton for the Bermuda Cancer and Health Cent...

A consultant urologist is hoping to offer free monthly health clinics for men to help in the fight against prostate cancer. Jonathan Makanjuola wants to make it easier for the uninsured or underinsured to get a prostate exam and hopes to start the c...

A man fighting for his life against stage 4 prostate cancer said that his fundraiser collected more than $3,000 in two weeks. But George Scott-Smith, 56, admitted that he did not think he would be able to get treatment in Turkey as he had planned. Mr...

Dear Sir, I was very disheartened to read the article on George Scott-Smith and his story of fighting cancer since 2019, also being complicated by type 1 diabetes. Had he been living in Bermuda, he might not have had to go through the trauma he is ex...

A father of three who is battling cancer in his bones and lungs has set up a fundraiser to pay for experimental treatment. George Scott-Smith, 56, said that he had been fighting prostate cancer since 2019, and discovered in January that it had metast...

Men’s health in Bermuda will get a shot in the arm with the advent of November as men’s health awareness month. The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre is marking the occasion with a series of events to raise prostate cancer awareness, with funds to sup...

Kim Wilson, the Health Minister, today encouraged all women in Bermuda to get annual mammograms. Today marks National Mammography Day, and Ms Wilson said: “Today serves as a reminder of the importance of healthy breasts and the impact of breast cance...

Wild wigs and silly hairstyles were all the rage yesterday for people raising money for cancer research and treatment. Pals’ tenth annual Mad Hair Day had 38 schools and businesses donning their craziest hairstyles to celebrate a decade of fundraisin...

A Bermudian doctor has won $70,000 in funding to run clinical trials for potentially life-saving cancer treatment after winning a virtual pitch competition. Sheldon Holder, an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Brown Univers...

More than 1,500 participants took to the streets in a walk to help raise funds for breast cancer treatment. The BF&M Breast Cancer Awareness Walk started at Barr’s Bay Park, on Wednesday, which was buzzing with activity. Lynne Woolridge, chief execut...

A cancer survivor who swam 2km to help women battling the disease has made good on her promise to help them feel “new and beautiful”. Nina London put the $5,000 she raised through her charity swim off Shelly Bay Beach last November 21 towards a class...