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Ashtons Legal in Bury St Edmunds has been recogised by Cancer Research UK after facilitating over £307,561 worth of gifts from people choosing to leave a legacy to the charity...
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A former Hornchurch teacher is appealing to former colleagues for help, as he seeks answers after diagnosis of a form of cancer associated with exposure to asbestos. He believes he...
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Between April and July 2018, 14,479 people were treated for some type of urological cancer. This is a 36% increase from the same four month period the year before. Chief...
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As asbestos lawyers here at Ashtons Legal, we are seeing an increasing number of “secondary” asbestos exposure cases where (generally) the spouse and sometimes other family members, have developed mesothelioma,...
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The UK is currently experiencing a major shortage of senior radiologists which in turn is disrupting and delaying medical care, in particular cancer care. Between 2012 and 2017, the workload...
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Julie Crossley, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons, has obtained a £20,000 settlement for a man whose prostate cancer was not diagnosed until it had progressed, after doctors missed an...
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Ashtons Legal Personal Injury partner, Richard Foyster, has raised £2,737.00 (including Gift Aid) for national cancer charity, Mesothelioma UK. Mesothelioma is an asbestos related cancer affecting many of Richard’s clients...
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An inquest opens today into the death of a Nottingham man after a hospital failed to diagnose lung cancer. Keith Beardsmore, aged 73, had undergone a chest x-ray at Nottingham...
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An asbestos-related disease specialist at Ashtons Legal has obtained an interim payment of £50,000 for Mr T from Norwich just eight weeks after starting to work with him on his...
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New research has been undertaken to identify whether or not breath tests can be performed in order to detect cancer of the stomach and oesophagus. A sample of 300 patients...
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Thousands of people in England are dying from bowel cancer because their disease is not being spotted early enough, a charity has warned. Beating Bowel Cancer found wide variation within...
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A recent study performed in Sweden suggests that women who are diagnosed with cancer following a smear test have a greater chance of being cured than women who do not...
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