Planning ahead can be hard. But it can help you to talk with your healthcare team, family or friends about what matters to you. It can help everyone to understand the care, treatment and support you want for your future. And it can also be a way of taking back control, at a time when so many things feel uncertain.
Hospice UK’s Dying Matters campaign puts it well: Talking about it won’t bring death closer, but it…
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (16th - 22nd May). The theme this year is relationships, which are important to maintaining our well being and mental health. It’s a great opportunity to take stock and celebrate the important relationships in our lives.
If you, or a friend or family member, are facing cancer, your relationships can be huge source of support during and after diagnosis and treatment.
Relationships…
This week is Breathe Easy week, an awareness event that focuses on lung health. In this blog, Cancer Information Nurse Teri looks at how to keep your lungs as healthy as possible. She discusses the symptoms of lung cancer and when to get them checked by your doctor.
Our lungs are constantly working. And as they work automatically, it is easy to take them for granted and not really think about them much. As a result, we…
We know that coronavirus (COVID-19) is still affecting everyone’s life dramatically. But for people with cancer and their friends and families, the pandemic may create even more concerns. This blog is part of a short series about cancer and the coronavirus from Macmillan’s Cancer Information Development Team. This blog is about cancer treatment and coronavirus.
Many people with cancer are anxious about the…
Today is World Kidney Day. The day aims to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys, and to reduce the frequency and impact of illnesses that affect the kidneys. In this blog, editor Elissia explores the kidneys and kidney cancer. She answers questions like: What are the kidneys? What do they do? What is kidney cancer? What causes it? And what are the symptoms of kidney cancer?
So, let’s start with the basics…
