Welcome to the May Answer Cancer update for 2024.  Hopefully, you will find some helpful links, news and information as we head towards summer.

Newsletter Highlights

  • Book onto our range of training sessions up until June 2024.
  • Become a digital champion.
  • Did you see our bowel cancer awareness campaign in April?
  • Got questions? Use our new Answer Cancer chatbot to find the answers.
  • Fancy doing a quick quiz? Discover the wealth of resources available on our Website
  • Find out who has pledged to Bee Seen, Get Screened.
  • Apply for an Answer Cancer year six grant.
  • Listen to the GM Cancer Podcast

 

Upcoming Training & Events

Free training sessions from Answer Cancer, the Greater Manchester Cancer Screening Engagement Programme! Different dates and times are available to suit you. We are now offering training through a mixture of online and face-to-face sessions, so please make note when signing up!

You need to register in advance to attend the sessions, but you can join as many sessions as you like. For a list of courses and register, please click here.

 

Courses provided by other organisations

Talk Cancer Courses

The 2024 dates for Cancer Research UK Talk Cancer and Train the
Presenter courses are now live on the Greater Manchester Cancer
Academy’s website.

Delivered by nurse trainers, these online, interactive workshops give
you the knowledge to raise cancer awareness in your community so
that you can feel confident talking to people about:

• How to reduce the risk of cancer
• The importance of spotting cancer early
• The national cancer screening programmes.

If you promote health and wellbeing in your community, the Talk Cancer
training will help you make your conversations more impactful.

Learn more here

 

ARE YOU SOCIAL MEDIA SAVY?
LIMITED TIME FOR YOUR CHAMPIONS ROLE?
CAN’T MEET PEOPLE FACE TO FACE

Could you be an Answer Cancer Digital Champion?

All you have to do is keep an eye on the Answer Cancer social channels
and like and share our posts, in particular our early diagnosis and symptom
awareness content. You can have a massive impact on the reach of Answer
Cancer messages and really help to get these important posts out to the
communities who most need to see them.

TO SIGN UP JUST COMPLETE OUR CONTACT FORM PUTTING
“I WANT TO BE A DIGITAL CHAMPION” IN THE SUBJECT BOX.

Sign up here

LIKE. SHARE. SPREAD THE MESSAGE

 

April was bowel cancer awareness month. Did you like and share our campaign?

As champions you can make a massive difference to the health of your families, friends and local community by sharing cancer awareness messages and talking about cancer and the importance of cancer screening.

Answer cancer shares resources on social media which you can use share and like. Every click helps to spread the word.

 

Got questions?

The new Answer Cancer AI chat bot can help you find the answers.  It makes finding what you want on our website easier and more accessible.  Why not give it a try?

TRY ME!

QUIZ TIME

Answer Cancer quizzes are a great way to test your knowledge, and learn new information. They only take a few minutes to do. Why not give them a try?

Let’s Quiz

 

Who has pledged to Bee Seen, Get Screened?

Bolton University and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council are the latest employers leading the way when it comes to health and wellbeing. In total 110 organisations have now signed the Bee Seen, Get Screened pledge meaning that nearly 80,00 employees across Greater Manchester can:
• Get time off or work flexibly to attend cancer screening appointments.
• Talk about health and wellbeing initiatives in the workplace.
• Have opportunities to talk about cancer and the importance of cancer screening at work.
If you are an employer or an employee who would like to know more about the Bee Seen, Get Screened pledge, you can chat to us, visit our website or just sign up below. It’s free, easy, quick to do and saves lives.

Sign the pledge

 

Check out our new round of grants

Would you like to help Answer Cancer grow communities’ knowledge of cancer and increase the uptake of cancer screening across Greater Manchester? Answer Cancer is offering small grants of up to £2,000 to Greater Manchester based voluntary, community & social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to deliver projects that will raise awareness of cancer & encourage people to attend cancer screening appointments. Project delivery period August – December 2024.

FIND OUT MORE

 

Listen to the new GM Cancer Podcast

In the first of a new series looking at cancer in the news, host Steve Bland and Professor Matthew Evison, Associate Medical Director at the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance, cast their eyes over the stories making the headlines in the first two months of 2024. And it’s been a busy one, with the news of the King’s diagnosis, Olympian Chris Foy reluctantly revealing he had been receiving treatment, the death of TV chef Dave Myers, and ground-breaking research projects including a new national BRCA gene testing programme and a new bowel cancer screening programme for people with Lynch Syndrome. Listen: Spotify: https://bit.ly/3IFiaTw Apple: https://bit.ly/3VeUPQ7 #TheGMCancerPodcast

Spotify

Apple

 

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