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Association for Cushing's Treatment and Help

54 Powney Road
Maidenhead
SL6 6EQ

Tel: 01628 670389
Web: www.acth.co.uk
Best time to telephone: 9am - 9pm

Association for Cushing's Treatment and Help (ACTH) is a support group for people suffering from all forms of Cushing's syndrome. The Association is patient-led and patient-run, sensitive to the needs of other Cushing's patients. It aims to help and support new and longer-standing sufferers from Cushing's syndrome, as a resource for easing their experience during diagnosis, treatment and follow-up, and helping them to recover the best possible quality of life. The Association provides written information for sufferers, in co-operation with medical advice. These include the following:

  • An information booklet for newly diagnosed patients.
  • Information for families of sufferers to help them manage the impact on family life.
  • An information booklet for patients after surgery.
  • Information fact sheets relating to other conditions after surgery.
  • Information that patients can discuss with their GPs.
  • A newsletter.
Checked: 7 Jan 2008








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Perhaps the biggest cause of ill health in the world is poverty. Help to Make Poverty History. For example, why not lend some of your money to disadvantaged communities to enable them to trade their way out of poverty through schemes such as Shared Interest.

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