If you are living with cancer, you may be able to get help with health costs. Find out more about financial support for things like prescriptions, wigs and fabric supports, dental treatment and eye ...

A toilet card is a card that you can show quickly and easily to staff in shops, pubs and other places. It explains that you have a medical condition and need urgent access to a toilet. Sometimes it is ...

Prognosis means the likely outcome of a person’s illness. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, this might be something you ask your cancer doctor or specialist nurse about. Or you may decide that ...

The online HOPE programme is a 6 week self-management course run by Macmillan and Hope for the Community. It has been co-designed alongside people living with cancer, and is based on positive ...

One of the easiest ways to begin training for your Mighty Hike is by exploring your local area. You might be surprised by how many suitable routes are close by. Parks, woodland tr ...

Our easy read booklets use simple language and pictures to tell you about cancer. They can be useful if you want information that is easier to understand. We have a range of easy read booklets. These ...

These NICE‑endorsed rapid referral guidelines (NG12) support GPs to assess suspected cancer symptoms and choose appropriate referral pathways. Browse guidance by cancer type, with recommendations on ...

An implantable port is also known as a portacath or subcutaneous port. A thin tube called a catheter is attached to a small reservoir called a port. It can be used to give chemotherapy or medicine ...

If you have symptoms that are ongoing, unexplained or unusual for you, you usually need tests to find out what is causing them. Some diagnostic tests that check for cancer can be arranged by your GP.

Cancer drugs are often used to treat lung cancer. Immunotherapy drugs are a type of cancer drug. They make the immune system become more active. This makes the drugs better at finding and attacking ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK (1). It is also one of the primary cancers that affect people from African, Caribbean, and South Asian communities. We know that there are inequities ...

Cetuximab is also called Erbitux ®. It is a type of targeted therapy drug called a monoclonal antibody. Cetuximab is used to treat bowel (colon and rectal) cancer and head and neck cancer. It may ...