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Cancer Campaign Resource Update
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November 2025
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Dear Colleagues,
November sees the launch of a number campaigns including our new This Van Can cancer awareness roadshow which will be raising awareness cancer in general. It's moving around Greater Manchester over the next six months. We also have new Get Cancer Clever resources focusing on the generic, red flag symptoms that could be signs of cancer. We also have social media content for lung cancer awareness month to raise awareness of symptoms of lung cancer, promote lung cancer screening and our LungAware online tool. November also sees awareness months for mouth cancer and pancreatic cancer and shines a light on men's health with Movember. We have content you can share to raise awareness of all this as well as some exciting new breast cancer videos to encourage women from ethnic minorities to attend screening and get symptoms checked.
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This Van Can .. help you get "Cancer Clever" |
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We’re delighted to announce that the latest “This Van Can” is back on the road. This time it’s focusing on the generic signs and symptoms of cancer / red flags, as well as busting some cancer myths. It’s accompanied by a sister campaign “Get Cancer Clever” which uses the same messaging. We want as many residents of Greater Manchester as possible to know what to look out for, with the ambition that more cancers are diagnosed at an early stage.
Please help us promote the van as it moves around Greater Manchester. As soon as locations are confirmed, a social media pack will be produced for each event.
You can check the upcoming dates on www.thisvancan.co.uk
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Our new campaign “Get Cancer Clever” is now available to share. The campaign focuses on the generic, red flag symptoms that could be signs of cancer, as well as tackling some common cancer myths.
The social media pack contains tiles in standard and reels sizes. We have also produced animated versions of each in both sizes, which work well on reels. The square animation works particularly well on Facebook.
A4 Posters are also available to support the campaign – please contact gmcancer.comms@nhs.net with your address if you would like some sending to you.
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Lung Cancer Awareness Month |
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November is lung cancer awareness month, and so we have prepared a pack of social media assets to support with raising awareness of the signs and symptoms of lung cancer. The pack includes our "signs and symptoms of lung cancer" animation, some quote tiles from some of our lung cancer patient representatives, and suggested wording and alt text.
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Lung Cancer Screening is currently being rolled out to people aged 55 to 74 who are current or former smokers across Greater Manchester over the coming months and years. In November the mobile clinics will be serving patients in Bury, Turton in Bolton and Stockport East and South.
Check out our social media pack or get in touch for posters which are available in English, Urdu, Arabic, Polish, Bengali, Punjabi, Romanian, Farsi, Mandarin and Cantonese, Portuguese, French and Tamil.
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LungAware is a simple “decision tree” style tool. Users answer several straightforward questions, which ask about their age, smoking status, lung symptoms and the area of Greater Manchester in which they live.
Once this information is submitted, the tool will provide advice on next steps.
The tool has been designed by lung cancer clinicians in Greater Manchester to provide good quality, evidence-based advice in line with NICE guidance, to people who may be concerned about their symptoms, but reluctant to see seek medical advice (for a range of reasons). The tool should either reassure or encourage them to seek further healthcare advice.
Support with promotion of LungAware
As well as the social media toolkit available here, we also have posters and leaflets available if you would like to help promote the tool. Please email gmcancer.comms@nhs.net to request these items.
A social media toolkit is available to download below. Please note that it’s important that the copy and images that are paired up in each folder are used together on the correct channel, and must not be mix-and-matched. The assets are clearly labelled to make this straightforward.
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This set of social media assets is designed to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of mouth cancer. Please share widely to help spread this information as far as possible.
Please use the hashtag #GMMouthCancer if possible.
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November is pancreatic cancer awareness month. Please check out and share Wigan GP, Dr Derek's, explainer video about pancreatic cancer or post one of the suggested messages pointing to the NHS website or Pancreatic Cancer Action's symptoms diary found on our website.
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Movember is all about men's health. Please see our resources to help raise awareness of potential symptoms symptoms bowel cancer, oesophageal cancer (including ongoing persistent heartburn), prostate cancer and lung cancer.
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Breast cancer awareness videos for ethnic minority women |
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Working with The University of Manchester, Prevent Breast Cancer, Fatima Women’s Association and the Caribbean and African Health Network, the Alliance is pleased to present a series of four new films to help encourage Black and South Asian women to attend either breast cancer screening or visit their doctor with potential symptoms of breast cancer. |
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A new video explaining a colposcopy is now available to share with patients.
The video has been produced by The University of Manchester, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester, People first Tameside and Intro Productions with support from the NHS Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance and NHS England. |
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GatewayC
GatewayC’s November communications will be available to download via the GatewayC website.
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