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The UK's leading cancer information site: your one-stop site with over 6,000 pages of up-to-date cancer information, practical advice and support for cancer patients, their families and carers. As cancer information specialists we can answer any question on any cancer.
Page last modified: 19 June 2008
Online risk assessment
Worried that breast or ovarian cancer runs in your family? Try our online risk assessment tool, OPERA >>
Online risk assessment
Build a profile and make friends
What Now? is a cancer community that really lets you get in touch with other people affected by cancer. Chat in the chatrooms, discuss on the forums, send private messages, upload videos and pictures and much more...
Build a profile and make friends
Celebrity backup teams
Mary McCartney took fantastic photographs of celebrities and their backup teams to show the importance of having a good support network. See the photos on What Now? and join to upload your photos.
Celebrity backup teams
Cancer information for young people
On Teen Info on Cancer (TIC) we have easy to understand cancer information written for young people. The information is broken down into an understand it section and a deal with it section.
Cancer information for young people
Join the teenage cancer community
Write a blog, chat on the forums, send messages, make friends - you can do all this and much more on Teen Info on Cancer.
Join the teenage cancer community
The best cancer information for everyone
Cancerbackup has merged with Macmillan Cancer Support.
We will be providing the same high quality, expertly developed information about cancer, but now we can make it available to everyone who needs it.
Think Pink!
Hold a pink themed event to raise awareness of breast cancer.
Think Pink!
Cancerbackup is a national charity and we rely on voluntary donations. To donate, please call 020 7696 9003 and tell us you have visited our website. Thank you.
