English cancer information and help

Find our cancer support services and get free information in English.

Get information in your language

If you cannot find information you are looking for in your language, you can ask for some information to be translated for free in one of 200 languages. Email us at cancerinformationteam@macmillan.org.uk and tell us what information you need.

Cancer and coronavirus

Signs and symptoms of cancer

If you are diagnosed with cancer

Types of cancer

Treatment for cancer

Living with cancer

End of life

What is cancer?

What is cancer? This video helps you to understand:

  • what cancer is
  • how cancer starts
  • how the lymphatic system works.

 

Using the Macmillan Support Line in your language

You can speak to the Macmillan Support Line team in your language. Call 0808 808 00 00 and tell us, in English, the language you need. We may need to ask you for your contact details so an interpreter can call you back. You may want to ask a friend or family member to help you with giving this information.

Help us to improve our translations

Get in touch by email if you have any comments or suggestions about how we can improve our translations. Your feedback is important to us: cancerinformationteam@macmillan.org.uk.