Need information and support? Macmillan is still here for you
We have free booklets about all types of cancer and its treatment, as well as about living with cancer and the end of life. Our information is for people affected by cancer, their loved ones and their carers. You can download a PDF or order a copy to be mailed to your home.
Cancer types
A
- Understanding melanoma that has come back in the same area
- Understanding acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)
- Understanding acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)
- Understanding advanced (metastatic) prostate cancer
- Understanding advanced melanoma
- Understanding anal cancer
B
- Understanding primary brain tumours
- Understanding breast cancer in women
- Understanding breast cancer in men
- Understanding risk-reducing breast surgery
C
- Understanding cancer of the ovary, fallopian tube and perineum
- Understanding cancer of the pancreas
- Understanding cancer of the voicebox (larynx)
- Understanding cancer of the vulva
- Understanding cancer of unknown primary
- Understanding cervical cancer
- Understanding chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
- Understanding chronic myeloid leukaemia
- Understanding colon cancer
D
E
H
K
L
M
- Understanding melanoma and treatment with surgery
- Understanding mesothelioma
- Understanding muscle-invasive and advanced bladder cancer
- Understanding myeloma
N
O
P
R
S
- Understanding secondary breast cancer
- Understanding secondary cancer in the bone
- Understanding secondary cancer in the liver
- Understanding skin cancer
- Understanding soft tissue sarcomas
- Understanding stomach cancer
T
W
Diagnosing, symptoms, causes, risk factors and tests
- Cancer genetics how cancer sometimes runs in families
- Having tests for prostate cancer
- Understanding bowel cancer screening
- Understanding breast screening
- Understanding cervical screening results and CIN (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia)
- Understanding the PSA test
- Are you worried about cancer?
- The cancer guide
- Signs and symptoms of cancer z-card
Cancer treatments and side effects
- Coping with fatigue with Fatigue diary
- Cancer treatment and fertility
- Coping with hair loss
- Eating problems and cancer
- Managing breathlessness
- Managing cancer pain
- Managing the late effects of bowel cancer treatment
- Managing the late effects of breast cancer treatment
- Managing the late effects of head and neck cancer treatment
- Managing the late effects of pelvic radiotherapy in men
- Managing the late effects of pelvic radiotherapy in women
- Managing the symptoms of cancer
- Pelvic radiotherapy in men - managing side effects during treatment
- Pelvic radiotherapy in women - managing side effects during treatment
- Side effects of cancer treatment
- Understanding breast reconstruction
- Understanding chemotherapy
- Understanding donor stem cell transplants (allogeneic)
- Understanding stem cell transplants using your own cells (autologous)
- Understanding lymphoedema
- Understanding radiotherapy
- Ask about your cancer treatment
- Cancer treatment and sepsis
Life with cancer: your feelings, relationships, work and finances
B
C
- Cancer and complementary therapies
- Cancer and relationships: support for partners, families and friends
- Cancer and your sex life
F
- Feel more like you
- Financial guidance series: planning and managing your finances
- Financial guidance series: housing costs
- Financial guidance series: sorting out your financial affairs
G
H
- Healthy eating and cancer
- Help with the cost of cancer in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Holistic Needs Assessment: Planning your care and support
- How are you feeling? The emotional effects of cancer
L
M
- Macmillan toilet card (Be.Macmillan page)
- Making treatment decisions
- Managing cancer in the workplace
- Managing your debt
- Managing your energy costs
- Managing weight gain after cancer treatment
- MSCC leaflet
- My records
P
Q
R
S
T
- Talking about cancer
- Talking to children and teenagers when an adult has cancer
- Talking with someone who has cancer
- Ten top tips for line managers
- The building-up diet
- Travel and cancer
W
- What to do after cancer treatment ends: ten top tips
- Work and cancer
- Work support route guide - England
- Work support route guide - Northern Ireland
- Work support route guide - Scotland
- Work support route guide - Wales
- Working while caring for someone with cancer
- Worrying about cancer coming back
Y
Advanced cancer and end of life
- After someone dies – coping with bereavement
- Coping with advanced cancer booklet
- Coping with advanced cancer audiobook
- A guide for prisoners at the end of life
- A guide for the end of life
- Your life and your choices: plan ahead - England and Wales
- Your life and your choices: plan ahead - Northern Ireland
- Your life and your choices: plan ahead - Scotland
- Preparing a child for loss
- Your step-by-step guide to making a will
Other formats
Need your information in a different format? We have expert cancer information available as:
- PDFs and ebooks – we currently only have a limited selection on our new website but there is a full, searchable list on be.macmillan.org.uk.
- Audiobooks – we currently only have a limited selection on our new website but you can listen to all of them as MP3 audiobooks on our Soundcloud channel.
- Information in other languages.
- British Sign Language videos
- Easy-read information – we currently have a limited selection on our website but you can find them all on be.macmillan.org.uk.
Our cancer information meets the PIF TICK quality mark.
This means it is easy to use, up-to-date and based on the latest evidence. Learn more about how we produce our information.
How we can help
Macmillan Support Line
The Macmillan Support Line is a free and confidential phone service for people living and affected by cancer. If you need to talk, we'll listen.