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Support for patients and families

Here you will find links to support services and information resources that can support you and your loved ones.
When someone you love has cancer, it’s natural to want to support them the best way you can. But sometimes, it’s hard to know what to do or say.

Organisations who offer support

PubMed

Online National Medicine Library

> Visit the PubMed Website

Alliance of over 100 organisations advocating for better patient outcomes for rare and less common cancers

> Visit the Cancer52 Website

Cancer Care Map is an online resource to help people living with cancer find care and support services in their local area, anywhere in the UK. The website is run by cancer charity, The Richard Dimbleby Cancer Fund.

> Visit the Cancer Care Map Website

The Gynae Narratives Project is a series of projects focusing on experiences of radiotherapy treatment for gynaecological cancer.

The first of these projects, funded by NorthWest Cancer Research, was a collaboration between Lancaster University in the Northwest of England and The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC), an NHS Foundation Trust that specialises in the treatment of cancer, near Liverpool. The project ran between May 2019 and March 2022.

OncoLink® was the first cancer information website on the Internet, started in 1994, and remains one of the largest.

> Visit the OncoLink Website

Patient models. Simulated, full-body patient models: Demonstrate treatment techniques using patient models and immobilisation devices.

> Visit the Vertual Website

Learn more about the team who plan and deliver your radiotherapy treatment.

> Open IPEM leaflet (PDF)

In-depth information about prostate cancer and treatment.

> Visit InfoPool Website

A Macmillan community project.

> Visit Macmillan Website

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