Thursday 25 August 2011

Time to raise awareness

Well, not long now till September arrives! For most people, thats when the kids go back to school and the weather turns cooler.
For us at Womb Cancer Support UK, September means one thing - going Peach!!!
September is womb cancer awareness month and we intend do do as much as we can to raise people's awareness of womb cancer and highlight the facts and figures surrounding it.
Did you know that over 7,000 women are diagnosed with womb cancer every year? The ages that women are being diagnosed is falling aswell; it used to be a post menopausal cancer but more and more pre menopausal women are now being diagnosed.
During September, and beyond, we want to raise as much awareness about womb cancer as possible and we want you to help us.
If you read our blog; follow us on twitter or the Facebook page then please share the links. Talk about womb cancer with your female friends.
If you are a womb cancer survivor, then please consider sharing your story. You can do this by contacting your local paper or even one of the many womens magazines who are always looking for "real life" stories for their publications! Above all, we need to make women aware of the symptoms of womb cancer and make them realise that, if diagnosed and treated early then the outlook is very good!

Please join us on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Womb-Cancer-Support-UK/122733007804817 and help spread some peachy awareness! xxx

Wednesday 10 August 2011

September Peach!

Most cancers have "awareness" months where high profile campaigns help to raise funds for research or just general awareness of the particular cancer. Womb cancer however, doesn't seem to have its own month here in the UK; over in the US its generally in September so we at Womb Cancer Support UK have decided to follow suit and declare September "Womb Cancer Awareness month"!

We are planning alsorts of things - from an auction of handmade items and original artwork to handing out leaflets at various locations around the country.

We are pleased to see the The Eve Appeal have designated September as
"Gynaecology Awareness Month" and will be raising awareness of all gynaecological cancers! http://www.eveappeal.org.uk

We don't want to tread on anyones toes, but we want to make sure that the womb cancer voice is heard loud and clear.
You can help us by spreading the word! You can do this in so many ways!

Follow us on our blog here!
Follow us on twitter - https://twitter.com/#!/WombCancerUK
Tell everyone about our new website - http://www.wix.com/wombcancersupportuk/home
Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Womb-Cancer-Support-UK/122733007804817

We are determined to reach the women who want and need support but we need you to help us do that! Please share links as often as possible!

Wednesday 3 August 2011

Busy as a bee!

We've been so busy over the past couple of weeks! We've been tweeting away on twitter; letting everyone know that we are here, ready to support women with womb cancer. We've been adding links to the Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Womb-Cancer-Support-UK/122733007804817 and on Monday 1st August we launched our funky new website http://www.wix.com/wombcancersupportuk/home

We have also started a fundraising page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Womb-Cancer-Support-UK-Fundraising-page-for-Research/247340318617259 to raise funds for a womb cancer research project being run by Dr Patricia Ellis at Hammersmith Hospital. We are selling a selcetion of handmade jewellery and original artwork with proceeds going to our justgiving page that has been set up and the money will later be paid to Dr Ellis' research project via the charity GRACE - Gynae-Oncology Research & Clinical Excellence.

So come over and see some of the lovely items on offer and please share the links!

Monday 1 August 2011

Website ready to roll!


We now have a lovely website  http://wombcancersupportuk.weebly.com/ so please come on over and have a look. But more importantly, please share the link with as many people as possible so that we can reach the women who need and want support.

The website is designed to lead women through to out other social networking sites - the Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Womb-Cancer-Support-UK/122733007804817 and the twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/WombCancerUK

I so wish that something like this had been around when I needed and wanted some support 18 months ago. But its here now - so make sure that you let everyone know - NO-ONE FIGHTS ALONE!

Blog post updated. 22.09.16