You’ve completed your cancer treatment and are ready to move on with your life and put cancer behind you, but you can’t. Perhaps you feel lost without regular contact with doctors and nurses. Perhaps you feel worried that you’re no longer acting against the cancer. And then there’s the constant worry that the cancer will come back. Suddenly every ache or pain is a threat.
Worrying about cancer…
When it comes to making decisions about your life, it doesn’t get much tougher than choosing which treatment option is best for you if you’ve got cancer. In this blog, we talk about things that can help you make your decision. The information here is from our booklet Making treatment decisions, which you can order now for free. The full booklet has lots more information about how to weigh up your options and…
Have you been meaning to give up smoking but just can’t seem to make that cigarette your last one? Or perhaps you’ve tried to quit but have found it too difficult and have started smoking again. Macmillan have developed a new booklet about Giving up smoking and it’s full of handy tips and advice to help you stub cigarettes out for good. You can order a copy now.
Living with cancer…
Newspapers often comment on cancer treatment. ‘NICE under fire for veto of eleven new cancer drugs’ and ‘NHS says no to new breast cancer drug’ were recent bold headlines. What do these have in common? Turning drugs down.
Going beyond the headlines...It’s worth knowing that NICE – the NHS ‘watchdog’ – has also approved more than 6 out of 10 (63%) of the cancer treatments it has assessed…
Written by Craig Melcher, Content Strategy Manager at Macmillan
For the general public, the story of cancer has long been one of being cured or not cured. ‘Beating cancer’ or dying from it. That story is changing.
Thanks to improved ways of diagnosing and treating cancers, they’re becoming more survivable each year. But as anyone who’s had cancer (or anyone with someone close who’s had it) knows, it’s not…
