Current Opportunities

If you have experience, as a patient or a carer, with any of the following cancer types, we’d love to hear from you:

• breast
• colorectal
• head and neck
• lung
• oesophago-gastric
• skin
• urology (kidney, bladder and prostate).

You may also have experience of going to A&E with an emergency related to your cancer, treatment or received a new diagnosis of any cancer.

A small community is a group of Patient and Carer Representatives who have experience of a specific cancer/tumour type, who come together every few months to influence the work of the pathway board for that cancer type.

We are looking to expand our small communities to ensure we hear from a diverse range of patient and carer viewpoints, and are particularly interested in those who have been diagnosed or affected by cancer recently.

For more information on small communities, and experience/skills required, please read our role profile.

Sharing your experience about cancer can be really helpful for others. It helps raise awareness of different types of cancer amongst members of the general public as well as highlighting cancer symptoms people can look out for in a more personal and memorable way than an information leaflet. It also helps demystify cancer, encourage conversations around cancer, lets people know about treatment involved and helps us to demonstrate that a variety of different people are affected by cancer. We are also interested in hearing from people caring for those with cancer. You can see examples of other patient stories on our news page.

To enquire about this opportunity please send us your name, age, cancer type, month and year of diagnosis, the area of Greater Manchester you live in, your phone number, and other brief information which you feel might be relevant or newsworthy.
***Please be aware we might not be able to reply to you immediately but will endeavour to send a reply within a fortnight.