Cancer Awareness

  • Community News : Supporting yourself while supporting someone with incurable cancer (Part 2)

    "Supporting someone while supporting someone else" written over a picture of a man walking by himself in a wheat field, with a white sky background.

    A loved one’s cancer diagnosis can have just as large an impact as a personal diagnosis. Our Cancer Information and Support Advisor, Jenna, is here to talk through some of the complicated emotions you might feel, and ways you can help yourself cope. If you missed the Jenna’s first blog post, you can read it here.

    In Part 1 of this blog series, I talked through the huge emotional impact coping with the incurable…

  • Community News : The power of peer support

    The power of peer support, written in white letters over a photograph of the sun shining two large hills.

    As cliched as it might sound, this year has certainly been unprecedented. COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the cancer Community, affecting diagnosis, treatment, and causing many to have to shield or self-isolate away from loved ones. Yet despite all that 2020 has thrown at us, here on the Community we have seen our members pulling together to support each other through what has been an incredibly difficult year for…

  • Community News : Spending Christmas without a loved one

    Spending Christmas without a loved one written in white over a picture of a snowflake

    At a time of year where we want to rejoice with our loved ones, sadly there are many different reasons why this may not be possible.

    This may be your first Christmas without a friend or family member, and there may be additional restrictions in place which means this festive period will be very different for you. However you are spending Christmas this year, we hope you can still find some peaceful moments.

    “This Christmas…

  • Community News : A day in the life of...a Cancer Information & Support Advisor

    A portrait photo of Ruth.

    We are pleased to be continuing our ‘A day in the life of…’ series today with Ruth, who works as an Information and support adviser on the Macmillan Support Line. Now that webchat is available directly on the Community site, we wanted to bring you a few of the faces behind the support and help you get to know more about how our teams can support you. For more information on how to use Webchat, please…

  • Community News : Supporting yourself while supporting someone with incurable cancer (Part 1)

    "Supporting someone while supporting someone else" in white over a picture of two women's hands clasped together in the garden. One has a wedding ring visible.

    A loved one’s cancer diagnosis can have just as large an impact as a personal diagnosis. Our Cancer Information and Support Advisor, Jenna, is here to talk through some of the complicated emotions you might feel, and ways you can help yourself cope.

    December is a time where usually we might feel we ‘should’ be feeling positive and festive. I’m conscious that for so many this will be an incredibly difficult time…

  • Community News : A day in the life of...an Online Community officer

    'A day in the life of...an online Community officer' written in white over a cartoon image of a blue sky with white clouds.

    When looking round the Community recently you may have noticed a new ‘chat with us’ button appearing when looking at our ‘Ask an Expert’ section or our ‘Help pages’. This is our new Webchat feature and we are really pleased to let you know that the Community team will now be available to live chat with Community users Monday – Friday 9am-5pm to help answer your technical questions. For more…