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The Tye Green Bowls Club, Harlow

Full steam ahead on the Macmillan blogging crusade! Welcome to our page. We are Macmillan Cancer Support, blogging and tweeting under the ID MacmillanAnglia. We fundraise to pay for our services to help local people affected by cancer and we communicate about existing services and campaigns. There are tons of people within this community whom without their support, we wouldn’t be able to provide any of our services for people living with cancer. This month for example, the volunteers at the Tye Green Bowls club in Harlow, helped raise £900 at an indoor bowls tournament!

February was also rounded off by Cancertalk Week, which ran from the 15^th to the 22^nd, and featured many honest contributions from people living with cancer. Just because Cancertalk Week has ended however, doesn’t mean that the information stops flowing there. Check out our Online Community to chat to and read blog posts by others who have been affected by cancer here:  http://community.macmillan.org.uk/whatsnew/default.aspx

Information looks to be in abundance this March – which will be the platform for Prostate and Ovarian Cancer Awareness:

Prostate Cancer is the most common type of cancer, found generally in men over 50. Around 34,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. The symptoms can include any of the following:

    ·        difficulty passing urine
    ·        passing urine more frequently than usual, especially at night
    ·        pain when passing urine
    ·        blood in the urine (this is not common) 

Ovarian Cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women in the UK. It usually affects women who have reached their menopause – though it can occur in younger women. Symptoms can include persistent pelvic and abdominal pain, swelling of the abdomen and bloating, difficulty eating and feeling full quickly. Most women with ovarian cancer are treated with a combination of surgery and chemotherapy. If you are worried about your family history of cancer and would like to check the likelihood of getting ovarian or breast cancer yourself, you can access the OPERA tool (Online Personal Education and Risk Assessment), which gives personalised information of someone’s risk of inherited breast and ovarian cancer, here www.macmillan.org.uk/genetics|.



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Here at Macmillan Cancer Support, there are always opportunities to get involved. Whether you pride yourself on being a great motivator and are more than happy to create more awareness by giving flyers, leaflets and posters out, or whether you want to get into the nitty-gritty of things and start a fundraising event in Anglia – there are always ways to be part of our movement. Macmillan Anglia will be your podium for weekly updates, exciting fundraising ideas, advice and volunteering opportunities to give you as much freedom as we can, in making a difference to the lives of people living with cancer.