cancer prevention

Plymouth woman to run Virgin Money London Marathon to help prevent cancer

Laura Goodbourn, 31, from Derriford in Plymouth, is running the 2018 Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday 22 April to raise money for World Cancer Research Fund's cancer prevention and survival work.

Laura, an assistant data manager, is doing this because her father Robert (Bob) Mayes died of a rare cancer in September 2017.

Laura has never run a full marathon before,...

Plymouth joins international Cancer Prevention Network

Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has joined the international Cancer Prevention Network (CPN) Consortium, in recognition of the importance of the University’s cancer-related research programmes.

The CPN was founded in 2003 by pioneering physicians from across the United States and Canada, with the objective of finding new ways of improving quality of life...