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News centre

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Keep up with the latest cancer news and events, find out about the latest Cancerbackup services and publications as soon as they become available, and link to some of the other resources out there.


What's new?

Go to What's new

Find out about the latest services and publications from Cancerbackup.

Hot topics

Go to Hot topics

Find out more about cancer topics that have appeared in the news, the medical journals or have generated calls to our helpline. Read our summaries, link to the full articles and quickly find the information we have on the subject.

Website of the month

Go to Website of the month
Find out more about useful online resources for you or your patients. Each month we'll be reviewing a website. It could be one which contains topical content or it could just be so exceptional we think you should know about it.

Get support

Look for other people in the same situation on our What Now? community - read their blogs or talk to them in our chat rooms.

Find out about other ways to get support on the main Macmillan website.