Accessing support online and through your phone
There are many digital resources that can supplement the support you receive from your clinical team, GP and local organisations.
We have collated some resources that can help people affected by cancer and their loved ones.
You will also find links to resources to help you gain more confidence with digital and online tools.
Online support
There are a huge number of websites and online resources to support people affected by cancer. Below are a few that we have collected together for you to browse.
Apps People Love
During the last year we have collaborated with ORCHA (The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps) to provide a curated library of apps to support people affected by cancer. This partnership has now come to an end, but below is a collection of the most downloaded apps – decided by users of our ORCHA library.
Cancer Care Map is a simple, on
line resource that aims to help you find cancer support services in your local area wherever you are in the UK. Cancer Care Map is run by The Richard Dimbleby Cancer Fund charity.
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ing with cancer can be difficult. There is help and support available. Find out about the emotional, physical and practical effects of cancer and how to manage them.
Click here to access Cancer Research UK
Sometimes you need to talk to someone who understands what you are experiencing, wherever you might be. Join the friendly community on Cancer Chat to reply to others, create a post or ask the nurses a question.
You can talk about any topic – from symptoms to going through treatment. See what others are discussing or search the forum categories of interest to you.
Cancer Chat is here to support you, every step of the way.
Cancer Support UK support people with all kinds of cancer across the UK. Their services are designed and delivered by people who have experienced cancer themselves – to improve the experience of others.
Cancer Coach Digital – These online interactive modules are designed to support you with some of the common emotional challenges you may be facing post cancer treatment. Click here to access Cancer Coach Digital
Cancer Coach Support Group – If you’re not feeling quite how you expected to after completing cancer treatment, or how you’d like to, or if you’ve noticed changes in your behaviours that you’re not comfortable with, you might benefit from our emotional support services. Click here to access Cancer Coach Support Group
Cancer Coach Focus Forwards – a one-hour interactive workshop designed to help anyone who has completed their cancer treatment move forward with confidence. During this 60-minute Zoom session, your experienced Cancer Coach facilitator will share common post-treatment emotions, as well as offering personal insight through their own experience. There is the opportunity to ask questions and participants are taught a valuable exercise to help manage anxiety and emotions. Click here to access Cancer Coach Focus Forwards – Scroll to the bottom of the page to book onto the next available session.
Find information about all types of cancer, including diagnosis, treatments and drugs, as well as advice to help with the different ways cancer may impact your life.
Click here to access Macmillan Cancer Support
The Online Community understands what it’s like to have cancer. We are an online cancer forum with over 80,000 members; and they have all been there. Support is available 24 hours a day, in a safe environment.
Mood & Symptom Tracker
Quick and easy symptom tracking for any chronic health issue or disorder. Discover what improves and worsens your symptoms so that you can find better ways to manage your health and well-being.
- Backed by scientific review
- Recommended by Professionals
- Made by patients for patients
The Belong Beating Cancer Together app provides cancer patients and their caregivers with a patient community and unique and personalized solutions to help manage and fight cancer more effectively. The app aims to help patients and caregivers to get better education, support, and tools to fight cancer.
The App is free and anonymous.
Using Belong, you will find support groups for every type of cancer, you could connect with other cancer patients on the same journey, with experts, physicians, and more.
ByYourSide® is designed to help you connect with loved ones, ask for the support you need, remember important information from doctors’ visits, stay organised and focus on your wellbeing – all in one place. ByYourSide® can help people living with cancer and their supporters:
– Share how you’re feeling. Track fatigue, mood, pain and sleep; integrate with health apps and wearables (capturing steps and sleep) and share personalized graphs with your friends and your doctor
– Explore tools that may help you with these health challenges
– Get help. Stay connected to loved ones, and send or receive requests/offers for help with daily tasks
– Make notes. Write and record notes and questions for the doctor. Keep test results, medication details and insurance information all in one place
– Stay organised by adding all appointments and tasks to MyCalendar
ByYourSide® is part of the This Is Living With Cancer™ program developed by Pfizer Oncology for people living with cancer and those who love them.
You can Help Yourself Anytime, Anywhere.
Are you feeling stressed? Perhaps something is making you feel anxious? Look no further, you’re in the right place. Get ready to experience a positive impact on your mental health with Ed can Help, the #1 self-care app. Get past trauma, and feel better today!
Our unique sound therapy is clinically proven to provide immediate relief from stress and anxiety in as little as 20 minutes, allowing you to find your sense of calm and achieve better mental health. Stress less, reduce your anxiety & feel better faster.
Our mobile platform is designed to improve the accuracy and detail of pain reporting, which can help support better treatment outcomes for complicated conditions, such as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
Nanolume’s user-friendly mobile platform puts sophisticated pain tracking and reporting tools in the patient’s hands. We help users track their pain over time visually, and use this information to produce comprehensive reports that patients can use with their physicians to track progress over time.
Perimenopause and menopause affect 50% of the population.
But it remains a taboo.
Many in the menopause transition are blindsided by their experiences — finding themselves confused and lonely. A once trusted physician may dismiss the symptoms, a mother may have never shared her story and it feels too intimate (sometimes even shameful) to talk to a friend about it.
If any of this applies to you, you are definitely not alone.
perry is a safe space for connections, support, new friendships and occasional laughs during the menopause transition. In your perry sisterhood you will meet other warriors who understand.
Reading and sharing experiences will help to feel ‘normal’ again. With our network of wonderful experts we have gathered an abun- dance of perimenopause and menopause specific knowledge, articles and even a podcast.
Sleepful provides support, tools and guidance to help you overcome insomnia. Based on research evidence, and designed by an expert team, Sleepful offers effective and easy-to-follow psychological strategies which can deliver lasting improvements to your sleep quality.
The app includes explanatory videos, a digital sleep diary, continuous feedback on your progress, alarms and daytime prompts, deep relaxation procedures with an MP3 recording, and bite-sized chunks of really useful information on sleep and insomnia.
Sleepful is free to download and use.
Supporting you to live well alongside a difficult diagnosis.
This app helps you ride the rollercoaster of emotions a difficult health diagnosis can bring. Cclinical experts provide easy, evidence-based tools to support you at home, when you need it most.
All content is designed for people managing long-term health conditions. The app cover the topics that other mental health apps don’t, such as accepting a diagnosis, coping with waiting times, or caring for someone.
Smoke Free gives you expert advice to help you quit smoking and stop for good. Get your questions answered with one on one help from top professionals in smoking cessation.
Quitting with Smoke Free is simple and effective. Smoke Free can help any cigarette smoker stop smoking for good. Quit smoking before? Want to stop smoking for the first time? Trying to quit smoking by yourself or are part of a quitting group? Smoke Free’s scientifically tested and proven quit smoking techniques work.
Increase wellbeing & resilience to stress
Sorted: mental health (formerly Feeling Good App) offers Positive Mental Training audio programmes based on scientific research which can help you feel better, lift your mood and recover from stress, anxiety, and depression by building resilience and developing positive feelings.
Based on Olympic sports psychology, Positive Mental Training consists of specifically developed audio tracks, incorporating breathing, positive reappraisal, and visualisation techniques.