This week is Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. In this blog, written by editorial assistant Amy-Louise, we explain what cervical screening is and why it’s important.
In 2017, a few days before my 25th birthday, I went for my first cervical screening test. Once I’d received my letter with my invitation to attend screening, I put it to the back of my mind for a few months before I made an appointment. However, I’m…
Today is International Volunteer Day, on which we celebrate and raise awareness of all the volunteers who contribute so much. In this blog, written by our volunteer intern Helen, we talk about some of the ways you can volunteer with us, the Macmillan internship scheme and how volunteers help to make and review our cancer information.
At Macmillan, volunteers are at the heart of everything we do. We have over 200,000 volunteers…
Today is International Volunteer Day! This day aims to celebrate volunteers by raising awareness of the vital contributions that they make towards their local and wider communities. In this blog, our editorial assistant Amy-Louise celebrates the volunteers who contribute to the work we do in our team.
Here at Macmillan, volunteers are at the heart of our work. We currently have over 20,000 volunteers who dedicate their…
If you’re a parent, being told you have cancer can bring with it an extra wave of questions and emotions about your children. You may feel anxious about telling them or even whether to tell them. You may immediately think about what will happen to them if you don’t get better. Or you may wrack your brains to come up with an explanation of cancer that your youngest will understand, or wonder how your teenager will react…
As autumn closes in, some of us start to think about staying in more often and eating fewer salads... but World Heart Day on September 29th reminded us that small changes can have a big impact. It’s the day where organisations around the globe encourage us to take better care of our hearts. It’s a scary fact that heart and circulatory diseases kill 1 in 4 people. But there are steps that we can all take to look after our…
