Macmillan has spent more than 100 years helping people living with cancer. From the moment someone is diagnosed with cancer, we're there with all the information, support and guidance they need, to help everyone with cancer live life as fully as they can.
Cancer can disrupt every aspect of a person's life, and its impact is different for everyone. Beyond physical health, cancer can affect relationships, employment, finances, emotional wellbeing, and many other areas of daily life. It can be made worse simply because of who you are and where you live.
Macmillan is committed to changing that.
Macmillan Services
Support Line Teams
Cancer Information Nurse Specialists
Cancer Information and Support Team
Welfare Rights Team
More than 50,000 people living with cancer were supported by the Macmillan Support Line in 2025
Cancer Information
Macmillan offer a wide range of cancer information such as booklets, leaflets, audiobooks and many more.
Information and Support Centres
They provide information about different types of cancer, tests and treatment. They are usually based in hospitals and community spaces across the UK.
In 2025, we supported almost half a million people living with cancer (approximately 476,000) via one or more of their information and support services, including the Support Line, information centres, Online Community, website, email support and Buddies service.
Online Community
A safe, anonymous space for anyone affected by cancer to access and offer invaluable peer to peer support.
Click Here to learn more about Macmillan’s services
Survivor stories
Mohammad, at the age of 37, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in May 2021. Due to surgery and cancer treatments, he has been left with long-term health conditions that have impacted his mobility.
Charlotte, who was diagnosed with Lymphoblastic lymphoma in 2007 at the age of 17, shares her journey of navigating long-term health conditions from cancer treatment.
Cancer isn't fair. Cancer care should be.
A cancer diagnosis is the biggest challenge many people will ever face, and for some it can be made even tougher.
How quickly someone is diagnosed, the care they receive, and their chances of recovery can be affected by where they live, what they earn, where they work, how they communicate or the colour of their skin. It shouldn’t be that way.
Everyone deserves the best possible cancer care. But too many people aren’t receiving it.
Through Macmillan’s Fair Cancer Care Campaign, they are on a mission to help make cancer care better for everyone. They’re bringing together the people who know cancer best - from healthcare professionals and community groups to their partners, volunteers, supporters and very own experts – to bring cancer care closer to every UK home
Click Here to learn more about Macmillan’s Fair Cancer Care Campaign.
How Macmillan are making a difference
£112 million
The Welfare Rights Team on the Macmillan Support Line identified a total of £112 million in potential welfare benefits that around 13,200 people affected by cancer could be eligible for.
476,000 supported
Macmillan supported 476,000 people living with cancer via one or more of the information and support services, including the Support Line, information centres, Online Community, website, email support and Buddies service.
480,000 people
As of the end of 2025, it is estimated that Macmillan professionals have supported at least 480,000 people with cancer in the UK (around one in seven, or 14%).