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Hi everyone.
If you cast your peepers up to the navigation bar in the header of the page (that’s the dark green bit under the light green bit up there ↑), you’ll see that we’ve launched a new section called Cancer types.
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Cancerbackup merged with Macmillan Cancer Support to form one large cancer community! Find out more about the merger. Visit Share, where you’ll find discussion forums, groups, a way to ‘find friends’, user profiles and private messaging. There will soon be group chat and a place to load photos. So watch this space!
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Christmas might be the season of goodwill and a time for socialising with friends and family but for those affected by cancer, it can be a very difficult time of year. This may be because you have cancer yourself or someone close to you has cancer. It can also be especially hard if a loved one has died.
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