A person who helps someone through an illness such as cancer or disability.

A cancer that starts in the cells of the body such as the tissue that lines the skin and internal organs of the body.

On this website, cancer survivor means anyone who has finished their active cancer treatment and is considered to be in remission.

An individual’s experience of cancer, from detection and screening, diagnosis and treatment, to relapse, recovery and/or palliative care.

Removal of the breast cancer and a small area of healthy tissue around it; also called a lumpectomy, complete local excision, partial mastectomy or wide local excision

Is a part of the body’s central nervous system.

A type of radiotherapy treatment that implants radioactive material sealed in needles or seeds into or near the tumour.

A test where a long tube with a tiny light and camera attached to it is put down the throat through the mouth into the lungs so a doctor can have a look.

These are genes that normally prevent a patient developing breast or ovarian cancer. If a patient has a fault in one of these genes, they have a high chance of developing breast or ovarian cancer, although it does not mean that they are certain to develop cancer.

A spongy material within some bones that makes different types of blood cells.