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Date published: February 2012. Every day we hear from people who feel isolated – whether that means receiving their cancer diagnosis on their own, having to cook their own meals after surgery or making their own way to hospital every day during radiotherapy. But despite this wealth of anecdotal evidence, we didn’t know the full scale of the problem. To find out, we launched the first-ever research into the number and profile of isolated cancer patients in the UK.
Download Facing the fight alone| [PDF] Find out more about our Not Alone campaign|.
|Date published: May 2012. Macmillan Wales launched a Cancer Poverty in Wales campaign in 2012. This report contributed to the campaign by measuring and demonstrating the extent of cancer poverty in Wales. This supported the campaign in raising awareness of this issue and enouraging national stakeholders to take action. Download Cancer poverty in Wales [PDF 2.24MB]|. Download the campaign report: Counting the cost of cancer in Wales.|
Date published: January 2012 Macmillan has an extensive programme of support specifically for carers| of people with cancer. Until recently, a detailed picture of the number, profile and needs of those providing unpaid care in the UK has not been available. Macmillan commissioned Ipsos MORI to conduct this research into carers of people with cancer to fill this knowledge gap. Download More than a million: understanding the UK's carers of people with cancer [PDF 4.69MB]|.
|Date published: June 2012 This research is a huge breakthrough in seeing the real picture of how long people are living after a cancer diagnosis. For years we’ve counted the number of people who hit certain benchmarks: one, five or ten years since diagnosis, but it is median survival times that gives an accurate new picture of how long on average people might expect to live with different cancers, and how this has shifted over time. Download Living after diagnosis: Median survival times [PDF]|.
Date published: August 2012 Find out about the number of older people (65 and over) who are living with a cancer diagnosis in the UK and how this number is set to grow in the next 30 years. Download Prevalence of older people living with cancer [PDF].|
Date published: November 2012. The number of people living with a cancer diagnosis in the UK is set to double from more than 2 million in 2010 to 4 million by 2030. Find out more about the ways that the cancer population is set to grow over time.
Download People living with cancer| [PDF].
Date published: December 2012.
We are carrying out a major project that is piloting new ways of providing one-to-one support for people with cancer across the UK. This represents a significant opportunity to improve the quality of care, quality of life and experience for cancer patients, carers and family members as well as identify new cost effective ways of improving quality of service.
Download One-to-one support baseline report [PDF]|.
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