The experience of cancer has been compared to a boat lost at sea in a storm. While the waters rage around you, a lifeboat races to your rescue in the form of health professionals and a structured treatment plan. Slowly, the health professionals tow you closer and closer to the shore where your friends and family stand waving and awaiting your return. You’re almost home! And then they stop. The lifeboat is gone. Your boat…
If you’re reading this blog, you might, like me, take your ability to read completely for granted. When you go food shopping, you use your reading skills to see which products you want to buy without even thinking about it. When you go out, you can understand bus timetables and road signs. You can find your way around a computer, apply for a job and understand important health information. But millions can’t. Today, let…
If you have a family member or friend in prison who is expected to die in the next few months, this blog has information for you. It’s about what prisoners and their family and friends can expect and the different members of the healthcare and prison team that can support them.
What can prisoners expect?
Although all prisons are different, prisoners should expect good care whether they are being cared for in…
If several people in your family have had cancer, you may be worried that cancer runs in your family. Knowing that a grand-parent, a parent or an uncle, for example, have had a cancer experience can make you feel at risk of developing cancer too. Besides, regular mention of the BRCA genes or ‘cancer genes’ in the media may have led you to wonder about inherited cancers.
It’s important to know that inherited…
Here, our Content Developer Debbie tells us how she raised lots of money for her Macmillan China Hiking Challenge, and at the same time gives us some fun fundraising inspiration.
So you’ve signed up for the London to Paris cycle challenge, next year’s London Marathon, or maybe you’ve gone all out and plumped for the once-in-a-lifetime Kilimanjaro summit trek. You’ve told everyone you know, your family…
