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With the ambition to reach and improve the lives of everyone living with cancer, it’s important for Macmillan to develop cancer information for people with different needs. After all, cancer doesn’t discriminate. This week, we’ve added some new easy read booklets and British Sign Language videos to our website – visit macmillan.org.uk/otherformats
We hope these new formats will go some way towards helping more people than ever before.
Our 52 easy read PDFs use simple words and pictures to tell people about cancer. They were produced by CHANGE, a national human rights organisation.
Topics include breast cancer screening, healthy eating and having chemotherapy.
On the web page, we’ve also included links to easy read information produced by other
organisations.
We’ve launched two new videos in British Sign Language (BSL) about chemotherapy and surgery. Produced with Ramon Woolf, a BSL user and cancer patient, they were reviewed by BSL users with a cancer experience.
Macmillan now has eight BSL videos covering the following topics:
What do you think about our new accessible information? Please contact Abi Delderfield at adelderfield@macmillan.org.uk with any questions or comments.
1 British Institute for Learning difficulties. Learning difficulties. http://www.bild.org.uk/information/factsheets/
3 http://www.rnib.org.uk/aboutus/research/statistics/Pages/statistics.aspx
The Macmillan team is here to help. Our cancer support specialists can answer your questions, offer support, or simply listen if you need a chat. Call us free on 0808 808 00 00.
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