Cancer

Supporting you through cancer

We’ve worked with departments and agencies, and the Cross-Departmental Working Through Cancer Network to create these guides. They show how we can help and signpost to other organisations who can help when we can’t.

Thank you to The Companies House Cancer Support Group, The Home Office Cancer Support Group and The Cross-Government Working Through Cancer Network, and also our Welsh Language Advocate volunteers, for their help proof reading the Welsh versions of these guides.

Support for you at work

If you are working following a cancer diagnosis, you may require support from your employer.

If you’re a serving civil servant, contact your HR Department or Workplace Adjustments Team for advice.

Workplace adjustments

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Support for your mental health

Whether you have cancer yourself or are supporting someone close to you, a diagnosis can rock your world.

In this Government People Group video, Gul Naz Aziz shares her experience of loneliness following her husband’s cancer diagnosis.

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Useful links

Working through cancer network

Email: workingthroughcancer@defra.gov.uk

Civil Service working support group for all staff who have been affected by cancer, whether through a personal diagnosis or supporting someone with cancer.

Working Through Cancer Network

Macmillan Cancer Support

Helpline: 0808 808 00 00

Emotional, practical, physical, and financial support for people living with cancer, at every stage of their cancer experience, as well as their family and friends.

MacMillan

Maggies

Free expert care and support in centres across the UK and online.

Maggies

Cancer Research

Cancer information including treatment options for different types of cancer, as well as advice about how to support someone with cancer.

Cancer Research

Cancer Hair Care

Helpline: 01438 311 322
Email: support@cancerhaircare.com

Advice and support on all aspects of hair loss, hair loss prevention and hair care, before, during and after cancer treatments.

Cancer Hair Care

Look Good Feel Better

Free workshops providing practical advice about changes to skin, eyebrows, eyelashes, hair, nails and body confidence.

Look Good Feel Better

Look good, feel better cancer support

Look Good, Feel Better is a UK-based cancer support charity who understand how emotionally challenging living with cancer can be. Join this wellbeing workshop led by their beauty and health expert volunteers to help people feel good, look better and more like themselves again.

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