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Life expectancy, often abbreviated to LEB, is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender. The most commonly used measure of life expectancy is at birth, which can be defined in two ways.

Mother fears Hereford toddler could be denied life-changing drug

Mother fears Hereford toddler could be denied life-changing drug
Nov 24,2023 8:51 pm

... " No-one talks about withdrawing that, " she said, but added: " If they don t have that medication that would severely impact their quality of life and their Life Expectancy, the same effects would happen to Bertie if he doesn t have his medication...

Johnny Ruffo: Australian singer and Home and Away actor dies aged 35

Johnny Ruffo: Australian singer and Home and Away actor dies aged 35
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... the average Life Expectancy was three years...

Prof Sir Chris Whitty says UK faces rural and coastal ageing crisis

Prof Sir Chris Whitty says UK faces rural and coastal ageing crisis
Nov 9,2023 9:31 pm

... Wealth, work, housing, discrimination; all play a significant role in the huge gap in healthy Life Expectancy between the richest and poorest areas of the country...

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... On 15 October 2020, Mr Johnson said he was " rocked" by analysis that the average age of those dying was over 80, adding: " That is above Life Expectancy...

'My ancestors were invisible. I want to be visible'

'My ancestors were invisible. I want to be visible'
Oct 12,2023 9:11 pm

... " Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been pushed to the margins, living an average Life Expectancy in the remote communities of not much more than 50...

Voice to Parliament: Early voting begins in historic Australian referendum

Voice to Parliament: Early voting begins in historic Australian referendum
Oct 3,2023 1:31 am

... Its supporters say it will lead to better outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who face lower Life Expectancy, and disproportionately poorer health and education outcomes than other Australians...

Tamil Nadu: The Indian men who photographed dead bodies

Tamil Nadu: The Indian men who photographed dead bodies
Sep 20,2023 9:41 pm

... But the practice faded away in many parts of the world in the 20th Century - perhaps as healthcare improved Life Expectancy - although it lasted longer in Tamil Nadu and other Indian states such as West Bengal and Odisha (Orissa) as well as in the...

Judge to decide on ending critically ill baby girl's life support

Judge to decide on ending critically ill baby girl's life support
Sep 15,2023 9:51 am

... Unnecessary suffering She said: " Sadly, patients who present at birth with this disorder have a Life Expectancy of a matter of months...

'I kept falling asleep in board meetings and then found out I had cancer'

Sep 6,2023 9:21 pm

When Lisa Stephenson started falling asleep in board meetings she put it down to the tiredness of juggling her hectic life.

The Bank director was working 70 hour weeks and flying between her Edinburgh home and London office.

" My colleagues would nudge me awake and it happened regularly, " the 52-year-old said.

" To physically fall asleep in a meeting is very embarrassing especially because I was always on my A-game and very driven.

" I felt really tired, absolutely exhausted. "

But she carried on and it was only after an annual medical through Her Job , as a director at Lloyds Bank , that Lisa received a call from the Western General Hospital to say routine blood tests had flagged up a problem.

She had a rare incurable blood cancer.

" It was Easter Monday and we were having breakfast with Our Children when I received The Call saying I was to come in now to the oncology department, " she told Bbc Scotland .

" I said they had the Wrong Number and when they persisted I said I think you have the wrong person. "

'In denial'

Lisa, who was married with Two Children , then aged 14 and eight, drove to The Hospital on her own, thinking her iron levels were maybe just low.

" The penny still hadn't dropped when The Consultant took me into a room, " She Said .

" He Said 'you have multiple myeloma' and I told him I had Never Heard of it and that he had the wrong person. "

The Consultant showed her charts and told her the cancer was incurable But that it could be treated.

She Said : " I asked what my Life Expectancy was and He Said at best five years and that The Treatment was tough, and that I was so bad I needed to start The Treatment straight away.

" I had an important meeting The Next day and He Said you can't go to London as you have to start chemo now. "

Lisa said that she was " in denial" at first and tried to hide it from work and her family But that The Doctor said she would have to tell people as The Treatment would make her very ill.

" I played it down and was Still Going to work, But I was so poorly. "

Ten Years later Lisa has had chemotherapy and stem cell treatment and she spent seven years on a trial drug, which she came off in 2019 to give her body a break " from the toxic poisons".

The myeloma affects her blood. It destroys her white blood cells, which are needed to fight infection.

She has had hundreds of blood transplants and has had pneumonia and septicaemia. She often feels very unwell and nauseous.

Lisa started going to The Maggie 's Centre in Edinburgh a few months After Her diagnosis in 2011.

The Charity provides free professional emotional and psychological support to people with cancer and their families.

This Week it is celebrating 25 years since it opened The First Maggie's Centre at the Western General Hospital . It now has 24 centres.

Maggie's centresWhen Maggie Keswick Jencks was 47 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After hearing this, Maggie and Her Husband Charles Jencks were moved to a windowless corridor where they were left to process The News . They discussed The Need for somewhere " better" for people with cancer to go, outside of But near to The Hospital . Maggie also wanted to bring people together in a calm and friendly space that would help them to find comfort in the experiences of others. Maggie and Charles, an architect, designed The Blueprint for the centres. The First Maggie's opened in Edinburgh in 1996, and now there are 24 centres across the UK and abroad. Maggie died shortly before The First centre opened, at the Western General Hospital - But with the support of Charles, and her medical team, including her cancer nurse Laura Lee (now Maggie's CEO), her vision has lived on.

" It's My Family 's default, Our Place of safety and my first point of call when I Am worrying about The Future , " said Lisa.

Maggie's has been a " huge support" to her and her children, never more so than when she tragically lost Her Husband , Peter, to a rare heart virus just two years after she was diagnosed with cancer.

And as well as benefiting from the classes and therapy the centre provides, Lisa has also become an active fundraiser for The Charity .

The former bank director, who had to give up work to focus on her treatment and battle with cancer, said supporting Maggie's had given her a new purpose.

" My Life is a lot quieter now from The Days of catching red eye flights to London and not Returning Home until late, " She Said .

But through her charity work she has raised £1. 6m for Maggie's.

Andy Anderson , a former oncology nurse and head of Maggie's Edinburgh for The Last 21 years, told Bbc Scotland that the idea of the centre remains as it was when it first opened - to offer people like Lisa and her family a homely space away from hospital wards and corridors.

" We want everyone to treat Maggie's centres like their own home, " He Said .

" There is a kitchen area where you make your own cup of tea and places to be quiet But also where you can sit with others.

" It's a Big Family here and it's a safe place to be heard. "



Source of news: bbc.com

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