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Employees of One Communications have raised $6,000 in support of Relay For Life Bermuda. The company said staff raised the money by walking, running, biking, and swimming 200 miles. One Communications said the initiative, which began on May 24, origi...

A charity dedicated to fighting cancer has said the pandemic has hampered its fundraising efforts, with its largest event of the year achieving less than half of its original goal. The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre raised $191,500 with last month’...

Bermuda Hospitals Board this week performed 3D mammograms for the first time this week. BHB upgraded its digital mammography unit to provide an imaging test that combines multiple X-rays to create a three-dimensional picture of the breast. Renee Butt...

A cancer charity yesterday appealed for support for its biggest fundraiser of the year next month. The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre said the success of the annual Relay for Life event was crucial after last year’s event raised significantly less ...

The ability to detect breast cancer has been boosted with new hi-tech 3D unit and what could be the island’s first automated breast ultrasound unit. The machines will be installed at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital this month. A hospital spokes...

A 34-year-old woman who lost her battle with cancer had planned to surprise a survivor by honouring her in an annual charity cause. It would have been the third time that Kevina Santucci, a mother of one, would have shaved her head in support of chil...

A group of sporting enthusiasts have launched a fundraiser for Wolves football coach and player Vincent Minors who was diagnosed with colon cancer last month. They have organised a golf tournament to help raise money to pay for Mr Minors’ medical exp...

A sponsored head shave at a Hamilton hairdressing salon helped raise more than $9,000 yesterday for the fight against cancer. Hairdressers at Salon Visage on Reid Street, Hamilton, sheared several children and adults who signed up to raise money for ...

Former Auditor-General Heather Jacobs Matthews died yesterday after a decade-long battle with cancer. Ms Jacobs Matthews, who was 69, served from 2009 to 2016 and was responsible for the island’s financial reporting through the turbulence of the Grea...

Despite the many problems brought on by the pandemic, despite the cancer that ultimately took her life, Sandy Young described 2020 as “one of her best years”. Friends in Bermuda rallied around her until the end. Her dying wish had been to make it bac...

A terminally ill woman who brought comfort to others with cancer has died after a long illness. Kevina Santucci, a mother of one, was 34. Ms Santucci found out in 2014 at age 28 that she had spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer. The community...

At 85, Bernice Smith learnt she had breast cancer. A routine mammogram in 2011 revealed a small spot developing under her breast; the St David’s Islander refused to waste any time on negative emotions. “When you worry about things, that is when they ...