Doug found a safe space to talk thanks to Bernie, his Macmillan Buddy. Read how one conversation helped him feel heard, ...

Small bowel cancer (also called small intestine cancer) is cancer that starts in the small bowel. Clinical Oncologist Katherine Aitkens explains bowel cancer in the video below. She gives an overview ...

This guidance is designed to help professionals manage the consequences of cancer treatment for their patients.

This guidance helps healthcare professionals to support physical activity in people living with metastatic bone disease.

Living with cancer and neurodiversity can make some aspects of managing diagnosis and treatment challenging. There is support available for people with cancer. Your healthcare team can give you ...

In this blog,Dr Hannah Tharmalingam reflects on the disappointing progress that has been made in the area of health inequalities over the past decade. Health inequalities describe the systematic ...

There is a lot in the news about weight loss injections such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. These are sometimes called GLP-1 drugs (glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists). These drugs work by ...

What does an acute admission mean for someone living with cancer? As an acute medicine consultant I meet people with cancer every day who have become acutely unwell. These acute events can range from ...

Leading oncologist and Macmillan Cancer Support’s Chief Medical Officer talks on the misleading cancer claims around anti-parasitic drug, ivermectin. I have been an oncologist long enough to see many ...

Why do we do what we do? What motivates us? What drives us to be our best selves? When we think about fulfilling roles, roles that have a direct impact for good, we probably think about nurses, ...

There is a growing evidence base and a number of interested healthcare professionals who are looking at onco-geriatrics and how older adults with cancer can receive the best possible care. However, ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK (1). It is also one of the primary cancers that affect people from African, Caribbean, and South Asian communities. We know that there are inequities ...