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Martin is Cancer Research UK’s Head Information Nurse and has been working with cancer patients and their families for the last 27 years, initially as a ward based nurse and for the last 19 years in the field of information giving. He currently manages the charity’s helpline service which responds to 11,000 enquiries a year from members of the public with questions about cancer by phone email and through our online forum Cancer Chat. Martin volunteers on the board of the International Cancer Information Services Group and has a Masters Degree in Health Education. He is committed to ensuring that people affected by or worried about cancer get the information and support they need to help them cope with their situation and to enable them to take back some control over their lives.
Following the news that Hugh Jackman has received treatment for skin cancer, our head information nurse provides the facts behind the headlines.
It was heartening to see Helen Jamison’s article in The Independent yesterday. If you missed it, Helen wrote a moving…
In recent years we’ve seen huge changes in the digital channels through which people can access information. At Cancer Research…
At Cancer Research UK, we get questions from the public all the time. Many come from people who are worried…
As more and more people use the Internet to talk to each other around the world, the way patients communicate…
The UK led the world in developing hospices and effective palliative care. People like Dame Cicely Saunders were trailblazers in…
A diagnosis of cancer can be a confusing time, where a lot of new information can arrive very quickly. Patients…
(Here’s a guest post by Martin Ledwick, Head of the Cancer Research UK Information Nurse team) It was good to…
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