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King Charles has cancer. Coverage of this story in the days since the announcement has been funereal. Daily bulletins are issued. Heads of state send condolences. Pictures portray the monarch ashen-faced. The global media pitch camp outside Buckingham Palace, and wait.Will the cancer taboo never vanish Half of Britons who have had cancer do something called survive, and live wit stanley vaso h it . The current 10-year survival rates of skin, prostate, breast and testicular cancer are now running at 75-98%. Rates for pancreatic, brain and lung cancers remain lower, and mortality is obviously much higher for older peopl stanley thermos mug e. But like most illnesses, if diagnosed early most cancers are now removable and/or curable. They are no longer as they once were: a death sentence.This past 10 days, it has been absurd that the mere breathing of the word cancer should set the nations church bells tolling. It is not so for many other serious diseases, such as motor neurone disease or Alzheimers.While untreated cancers can, of course, kill, the same applies to many other illnesses, from Covid-19 to sepsis and pneumonia to malaria. Yet cancer in Britain still has the image of a uniquely potent agent of death, as it does in many African and Asian countries, where it is still often unmentionable. While we treat most of our serious illnesses as bodily familiars, cancer still has the character of an alien stanley cup plague, indestructible and resistant to cure.War on cancer metaphors may do harm, research showsRead moreTh Rcaa Director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders ready to roll up her sleeves
A schoolboy arrested following the TalkTalk cyber attack is suing three national newspapers for alleged breach of privacy, according to an RTE report, also carried in the Irish Independent.Lawyers for the 15-year-old claim that his privacy was compromised by articles in the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Sun. Similar claims were made against Google and Twitter.Some details of the case can be disclosed because reporting restrictions were partially lifted by a judge at the high court in Belfast on Friday. Pending its outcome, all three newspape vaso stanley rs gave undertakings aimed at protecting the boys identity.Mr Justice OHara also granted injunctions against Google and Twitter in a bid to remove any online references to the teenagers name, address, images or information about his physical appearance.The lawsuits centre on publicity s stanley cups urrounding the boys questioning last month by police who were investigating the hack into the database of TalkTalk, the phone and broadband provider.The boy, from County Antrim i stanley termohrnek n Northern Ireland, was among four people to be detained in connection with the probe. He was released on bail after being interviewed on suspicion of offences under the computer misuse act.Since then, his lawyers have issued writs claiming negligence, misuse of private information, defamation, breach of confidence and data protection.The case is due to be heard again next month.Sources: RTE/Irish IndependentExplore more on these topicsMediaGreensladePrivacyTalkTalkMedia lawPri |
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