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…
It seems that every time you open a newspaper or switch on the news, there’s a different cancer prevention message. The volume of information can be overwhelming – and not helpful when some messages seem to contradict each other.
In the first of a two part blog about cancer prevention, we discuss some of the positive things we could all do to help reduce our risk of cancer.
Why it’s so important
In the…
In the UK about 2 in every hundred people over the age of 75 are diagnosed with cancer each year. As people are living longer, this means that the number of older people living with cancer is also increasing.
This is likely to affect most of us in some way. Even if we are not over the age of 75 yet, many of us are likely to have a relative or friend who is. In this blog, one of our information development nurses Teri…
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…
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…
