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Find information about all types of cancer, including diagnosis, treatments and drugs, as well as advice to help with the different ways cancer may impact your life.

• Cancer information and support

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• Worried about cancer
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• After treatment
• Supporting someone
• Get help
• Stories and media

• Cancer awareness 

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Answer a few quick questions to get specially selected cancer information and advice.

• Your personal guide
• Managing money and cancer advice

About cancer and treatment

• What is cancer?
• Signs and symptoms of cancer
• The lymphatic system
• Your treatment options
• Preparing for treatment

Cost of living and cancer

• Help with the cost of living and cancer
  • Managing household bills
  • Understanding benefits
  • Finding emotional help

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

• Coronavirus and cancer guidance
  • Coronavirus guidance for people living with cancer
  • Cancer treatment and coronavirus
  • Coronavirus guidance for volunteers
• Coronavirus guidance for healthcare professionals
  • Emotional health and well-being support for professionals
  • Difficult conversations

Cancer A to Z

• Cancer A to Z
• Cancer types
• Diagnostic tests
• Treatments and drugs
• Impacts of cancer

Common tests and scans

• Biopsy
• Colonoscopy
• CT scan
• PET-CT scan
• PSA test
• Smear test (cervical screening test)

Common treatments and procedures

• Chemotherapy
• PICC lines
• Radiotherapy
• Surgery
• Immunotherapy

Get help

• Get help
• Physical help
• Emotional help
• Practical help
• Financial help
• Help with work
• Macmillan nurses

Other languages and formats

• Cancer information in your language
• Cancer information booklets and other formats

Services

• Find services in your area
• Macmillan Grants
• Macmillan Support Line
• Macmillan Online Community
• Macmillan Information and Support Centres
• Mobile Information and Support Service
• Macmillan Buddies
• Macmillan Well-Being Coaching

Cancer types

Find out about the different types of cancer, including risk factors, symptoms, tests and treatment.

• Advanced cancer
• Bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma)
• Bladder cancer
• Blood cancer
  
  • Essential thrombocythaemia (ET)
  • Myelodysplasia (MDS)
  • Myelofibrosis (MF)
  • Polycythaemia vera (PV)
• Bone cancer
  
  • Chondrosarcoma
  • Chordoma
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • Osteosarcoma
• Bowel cancer
  
  • Anal cancer
  • Anorectal melanoma
  • Colon cancer
  • Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP)
  • Rectal cancer
  • Small bowel cancer
• Brain tumours
  
  • Acoustic neuroma
  • Astrocytoma
  • Craniopharyngioma
  • Ependymoma
  • Glioma
  • Haemangioblastoma
  • Medulloblastoma
  • Meningioma
  • Oligodendroglioma
  • Pineal region tumours
  • Pituitary gland tumours
  • Secondary brain cancer
  • Spinal cord tumours
• Breast cancer
  
  • Breast cancer in men
  • Secondary breast cancer
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
  • Inflammatory breast cancer
  • Paget's disease of the breast
  • Phyllodes tumours
  • Triple negative breast cancer
• Cancer of unknown primary (CUP)
• Cervical cancer
• Gall bladder cancer
• Head and neck cancer
  
  • Mouth cancer
  • Nasal and sinus cancer
  • Nasopharyngeal cancer
  • Oropharyngeal cancer
  • Salivary gland cancer
  • Throat cancer
  • Tongue cancer
• Kidney cancer
• Laryngeal (larynx) cancer
• Leukaemia
  
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)
  • Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)
• Liver cancer
• Lung cancer
  
  • Non-small cell lung cancer
  • Small-cell lung cancer
• Lymph node cancer (secondary)
• Lymphoma
  
  • Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL)
  • Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL)
  • Burkitt lymphoma
  • Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL)
  • Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
  • Follicular lymphoma
  • Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)
  • Lymphoblastic lymphoma
  • MALT lymphoma (extranodal marginal zone lymphoma)
  • Mantle cell lymphoma
  • Nodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Peripheral T-cell lymphoma
  • Primary CNS lymphoma
  • Primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL)
  • Small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL)
  • Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL)
  • Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia
• Melanoma
  
  • Advanced melanoma
  • Eye cancer (ocular melanoma)
  • Recurrent melanoma
• Mesothelioma
• Myeloma
• Neuroendocrine tumours (NETS)
• Oesophageal cancer
• Ovarian cancer
  
  • Fallopian tube cancer
  • Germ cell ovarian cancer
  • Primary peritoneal cancer
• Pancreatic cancer
• Parathyroid gland cancer
• Penile cancer
• Prostate cancer
  
  • Advanced prostate cancer
  • Early prostate cancer
  • Locally advanced prostate cancer
• Rare cancers
• Sarcoma
• Secondary bone cancer
• Secondary cancer
• Secondary liver cancer
• Secondary lung cancer
• Skin cancer
  
  • Types of skin cancer
• Soft tissue sarcoma
  
  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST)
  • Kaposis sarcoma
  • Leiomyosarcoma
  • Sarcoma skin lesions
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Stomach cancer
• Testicular cancer
• Thymus cancer
• Thyroid cancer
  
  • Anaplastic thyroid cancer
  • Medullary thyroid cancer
• Tracheal cancer
• Ureter and renal pelvis cancer
• Vaginal cancer
• Vulval cancer
• Womb cancer

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• Ways to fundraise
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• Fundraising ideas
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• Your local fundraising team
• Fundraising FAQs  

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