Cancer & LGBTQ+ | Information & Advice Sheet

One in two people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime: a scary thought, but made less so when you consider that nearly 40% of cancers are preventable or can be treated early with good outcomes.

Knowing how to lower your risk is one thing – changing your lifestyle is not always easy or straightforward. There may be other priorities in life, so cancer advice may not be timely. Some lifestyle choices are used to manage stress in spite of knowing that they may be impacting other aspects of health, so cancer advice may not be realistic.

Coming to terms with sexuality or gender; finding partners, friends and allies; and anxiety over family relationships will take priority over worrying about something that may not happen. Information needs to be sensitive and recognisable as relevant for people to take the time to read it and use it.

With this in mind, Age UK Cornwall and IOS and Macmillan, with support from Not Alone Plymouth have created an information & advice guide. Click the guide below to download it as a PDF or enlarge.