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Awareness and Prevention

Tools and resources to support you in raising awareness of cancer

  • Access awareness and prevention tools and resources to support you within your community.

  • Find support and training to help you talk confidently about cancer.

  • See the different ways we are working to raise awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer.

  • Discover information to help you have informed discussions with your patients.

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Talk Cancer: Cancer awareness training

We can help you feel confident talking about ways to reduce the risk of cancer, spotting cancer early and screening.

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Cancer Awareness Roadshows

We raise cancer awareness among the public and support people to access their local services.

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Cancer Awareness in the Workplace

Find out how your employees can feel empowered to take positive action for their health through Cancer Research UK’s workplace health programme.

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The Cancer Awareness Measure ‘Plus’ (CAM+)

We use the CAM+ survey to measure cancer-related attitudes, awareness and behaviours.

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Causes of cancer and ways to reduce cancer risk

Useful information to help you when talking to people about cancer prevention.

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Our policy priorities on preventing cancer

We work with Government to ensure that their policies tackle the major risk factors for cancer including alcohol, obesity, diet and sun awareness.

Our reports and publications

Explore a selection of reports and publications from the experts at Cancer Research UK, and through various collaborations.

Topics include: summaries of the state of cancer, projections, risk factors and preventability, symptom awareness investigation, intervention success, barrier identification, treatments received and more.

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Newsletters

Newsletters targeted at health professionals which provide intelligence to support evidence-based decision making and updates on our activities, as well as our bespoke GP newsletter which includes best practice guidance, practical tools and expert resources.

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