Jennifer Finch died last week after chronicling her brain cancer battle. She was 59 and remembered as L7's bassist. The band headlined big tours in the 1990s before their final gigs in the late 2000s. Finch had fought breast cancer earlier, coming through it in 2015.

Former England football boss Kevin Keegan also died aged 75. He played more than 600 top-flight games, then took charge at Newcastle and the full England side. Little has been made public about the precise diagnoses they faced.

Meantime, NHS records point to wide variation in leukaemia treatment at hospitals up and down the UK. One applicant lost a care job after a routine check found the condition. Cancer Research UK argues anonymised patient records could accelerate progress in studies.