Helping people to
understand cancer
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new trials were added to our clinical trials database
We help people to understand cancer, the progress we are making and the choices each person can make.
The more that people know about cancer, the more they can do to make informed choices to reduce their risks and detect it earlier.
Using a mixture of communication channels and approaches, we work hard to increase knowledge about cancer – what it is, how it is caused, and how it can be prevented and detected.
Making information mobile
This year, we ran a pilot project with the Marie Keating Foundation to use mobile cancer awareness units to take information about cancer into communities where people may be unlikely to seek it out themselves.
In eight months, the units attracted 13,442 visitors, with above average proportions of men (38%) and people under 30 (42%) – two groups that are typically hard to reach with health messages.
Following the success of the pilot, our Cancer Awareness Roadshow hit the road in April 2007, with two units touring communities throughout the UK until March 2008.
View our mobile cancer awareness units video, including a message from Ronan Keating
(or read the transcript)
Award-winning support
Our CancerHelp UK website continues to provide easy-to-understand, evidence-based information for anyone affected by cancer.
This year, 24.4 million pages of our website were looked at, and the general public voted it Best Health Website in the 2006 Website of the Year Awards.
CancerHelp UK houses a unique clinical trials database, written in plain English. Anyone affected by cancer can use the database to find out about cancer trials in the UK – last year, 234,000 trial summaries were viewed.
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