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A simple, easy-to-use online resource to help you find cancer support services in your local area.

Important Notice.

The hub gives general information and support for people affected by cancer. It is not a substitute for medical advice. If you are feeling unusually ill, or notice new or worsening symptoms, please contact your key worker at the hospital, your GP or ring NHS 111.

You should go to A&E immediately if:

  • You are struggling to breathe or are having chest pains
  • You are bleeding badly, and it is not stopping
  • Have you severe vomiting or diarrhoea which has not stopped
  • You have had a seizure or loss of consciousness
  • You have a high temperature, rapid heartbeat, and are feeling very unwell

If you are unsure but feel very ill, call NHS 111 for urgent advice.

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What can you find on this page?

Living Well with Cancer

Discover tips, tools, and real-life guidance to help you maintain your wellbeing while living with cancer—physically, emotionally, and socially.

Support for You and Your Family

Explore a range of support services designed for both patients and their loved ones, including emotional, practical, and financial help.

Learning and Understanding

Access trusted information about cancer, treatments, and care pathways to help you feel more confident about cancer, support and treatment.

Living Well With Cancer

Support for You and Those Around You

Learning and Understanding

What is Health and Wellbeing Information & Support?

Addressing patient difficulties and concerns in confidential conversations at various point in the patients cancer experience; Providing access to relevent, up to date resources in the form of leaflets, weblinks, apps; Comprehensive, up to date knowledge of other services to support patients at different stages of their cancer experience; Identifying when input from another service would benefit the patient and offering a referral or up to date signposting information; Facilitating support groups or signposting to community groups and other relevant community services; Recognising late effects and long term consequences of treatment. Delivery of services to address these or knowledge of available service; Delivery of health and wellbeing events and courses to address specific patient needs.
Health & Wellbeing support refers to a holistic approach to patient care. The key to this is to see each person as unique. Patients have needs beyond those related to their cancer.
The approach looks at all of a person’s needs. It understands that cancer can affect patients in many different ways.

The picture shows how many elements we think about when taking this approach.

At the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, we work with the wider system to connect services, share resources and design new ways of improving access to information and support.
We also work closely with pathway boards and Nurse Specialists to create new resources for patients. Updates on this piece of work will appear here.

Cancer Care Map is a simple, online resource that aims to help you find cancer support services in your local area wherever you are in the UK. 

This link will bring you to a third party website, owned and operated by an independent party which Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance has no control over. Any use of the third party website ‘Cancer Care Map’ will be subject to and any information you provide will be governed by the terms of the third party website, including those relating to confidentiality, data privacy and security.

If you have used any services, or are aware of any which would be valuable to have added to this website, please get in touch via email with Max Thomasson who works for the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance’s Personalised Care Programme: max.thomasson@nhs.net