Cancer Research UK is about to increase its wealth -- once a signed honeymoon photograph of the Prince and Princess of Wales is auctioned.

The photograph reportedly came from an unnamed member of the Royal Household and had been purchased by a collector. Taken on the Royal Estate at Balmoral just days after the wedding of Charles and Diana, it's Diana's signature prominently displayed on the photograph -- it reads, Lots of Love, Diana.

The auction, organized by a businesswomen whose lost her mother-in-law to breast cancer, will take place on June 9 at a charity ball at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square. It is expected to sell for £3,000.

On June 20, Academy Award-winning Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones will return to her homeland of Wales to celebrate the opening of the first children's hospital in Wales.

Long-time patron of Noah's Ark Appeal, Catherine Zeta Jones, along with celebrities such as Charlotte Church and cricket hero Ian Botham, helped raise over £7m for the first phase of the new children's hospital.

At the ceremony, Catherine Zeta Jones, with her husband actor Michael Douglas, will unveil a plaque to mark the official opening. Noah's Ark Appeal continues its fundraising activity for additional projects at the new children's hospital. For more information, visit Noah's Ark Appeal.

Compared to cancer rates in England and other parts of Wales, young women under 50 years of age living in the vicinity of the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in north Wales are diagnosed with breast cancer at a rate 15 times higher than the national averages.

For all other cancers, the rate is double was it is in other communities. The power plant is shut down but the effects from the radioactive waste are still being felt in cancer diagnosis.

In a private preview of the 84th Chelsea Flower Show, attended by The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and celebrities, Emma Thompson unveiled the pink rose that will become the signature plant for the Plant Pink campaign. The campaign will raise money in support of Breast Cancer Care. "It seems to me there are more and more women getting this disease. Of course, since they are the growers and nurturers, the effects of a woman having this disease go very, very far through the family. The reverberations through children's and parents lives are very great. I am promoting this for all the people who I know who have lost their women." UK gardeners are being asked to plant pink plants using pink products all available at Wyevale Garden Centres. 50p from the sale of all pink plants will go towards raising money for the breast cancer charity. Wyevale Garden Centres, the UK's largest garden centre group with 114 stores, has chosen Breast Cancer Care as its Charity of the Year for 2006.

In a universal health system, care is rationed by medical priority when determining where health dollars will be spent and what types of treatment will be covered. In the UK, a debate is taking place between British scientists who are recommending that unproven or disproved complementary therapies not be funded and therapists of complementary medicine who argue that many of the alternative therapies have been proven effective and should be funded for patients who can benefit from such therapies. This has opened up a whole new discussion in defining exactly what alternative or complementary therapies are and what place they have in modern medical practice.

Meanwhile, Prince Charles, a strong advocate of alternative therapies and organic foods, spoke to World Health Assembly members of the World Health Organization about the need to consider making better use of traditional therapies, particularly acupuncture and herbal medicines, to improve health care around the world.

"I believe that the proper mix of proven complementary, traditional and modern remedies, which emphasizes the active participation of the patient, can help to create a powerful healing force in the world,'' Charles said. "This is where orthodox practice can learn from complementary medicine, the West can learn from the East and new from old traditions."

Prince Charles is concerned that if we do not recognize the wisdom and value of the past, much of that knowledge will be lost. Putting aside politics, monarchy and scandal, I am gaining more respect for the Prince of Wales the more I learn about his perspectives concerning health and the environment.

In the Shropshire Star, is the story of Susan Morgan, 41, diagnosed with the type of breast cancer that can benefit from treatment with Herceptin. But, unless she is able to pay £47,000 for the drug, she will not be treated with it because her primary care trust will not cover the cost.

Rather than sit and watch her mother die because they can not afford a drug that might prolong her mother's life, Katie, 10, decided to take matters into her own hands. First, Katie started selling eggs from the family farm to raise money for her mother. Then she wrote a passionate letter to the local MP pleading for help on behalf of her mother's life. The letter made the news, and an anonymous benefactor has offered to pay for Ms. Morgan's cancer drug treatment with Herceptin. I am pleased that Katie's mother will be able to have access to the drug now, but so terribly sad that a young girl had to be put through the emotional trauma and fear that prompted her to write a letter asking for help to save her mother's life. Even more unfortunate, this is not an isolated case.

Women Fighting for Herceptin, a British group calling on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, NICE, to approve Herceptin, a drug used to treat women with HER2/neu receptor positive breast cancer, as a first line treatment for early-stage breast cancer. The group wants the expensive life-saving drug treatment made freely available to all women with HER-2 positive breast cancer. In an act of civil disobedience, Jayne Sullivan staged a one-woman protest at the National Assembly in Cardiff Bay, Wales, until her government agreed to end the postcard lottery of medical care for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Her government had refused to grant women with early-stage breast cancer access to the drug Herceptin. This story is not over, as women in parts of the UK continue to fight not only cancer, but a universal health system that is denying them access to cancer drug treatment.