Get in touch with yourself – Free Breast Cancer awareness sessions for all

To mark October's Breast Cancer month,  Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance is supporting national campaigns to raise awareness about breast cancer and the NHS breast screening service, by offering short 20 minute online breast cancer awareness sessions for all. Take the right steps now to prevent breast cancer in the future.

Did you know…

• breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women
• around 55,000 women are diagnosed each year
• men can also be diagnosed with breast cancer
• both trans women and trans men can be affected by breast cancer

What will I find out on these webinars?

 Learn more about:

• The signs and symptoms of breast cancer in men and women
• How to do a breast check
• When is breast cancer screening offered
• What happens at a breast cancer screening

How to book your sessions

This year there are more opportunities for people to join sessions and learn about breast cancer. Please follow  the link to whichever you are most interested in, there are multiple dates available throughout October:

• Breast cancer in women, please click here

• Breast cancer in men, please click here

• Breast cancer for those from the LGBT community, please click here

These sessions are open to anyone living or working within the Humber and North Yorkshire area. 

If you would like to arrange a session for your team/group, or have any questions, please contact the Cancer Champions team at hny.cancerchampions@nhs.net.

Become a Cancer Champion and raise awareness about cancer

Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance seeks to improve cancer survival rates by ensuring more people are diagnosed at an earlier stage, by improving cancer awareness and uptake of screening.

Anyone and everyone can be a Cancer Champion – it’s about real people raising awareness about cancer in their community. HNYCA fun free half day training session or two-part virtual sessions, cover the key facts, statistics, symptoms and screenings which are linked to a number of cancers.

Click here for more information and to sign up to a free Cancer Champions awareness session.Find out more about the work of Humber & North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance,