Jennifer Finch died last week after opening up about her brain cancer fight. She was 59 and widely recognised as L7's bassist. The band toured extensively in the 1990s before their final gigs in the late 2000s. Finch had faced breast cancer previously, winning that fight in 2015.
Former England football boss Kevin Keegan also left us aged 75. He played more than 600 top-flight games, then took charge at Newcastle and the full England side. Not much has been shared about the precise diagnoses they faced.
Meanwhile, NHS records point to stark gaps in leukaemia treatment across hospitals nationwide. One applicant lost a care job after a standard screening found the condition. Cancer Research UK argues anonymised data sets could speed breakthroughs in studies.