Melanoma is one of the cancer types we raise awareness for in May. It is a kind of skin cancer that starts in the melanocytes. These are cells that make the pigment – melanin – that gives skin its colour. Over 9 out of 10 cutaneous melanoma cases in the US (for example) are caused by ultraviolet […]
Proving the benefits of climbing when living with and beyond cancer. You may remember we made a grant to the Centre de Rocheplane in France as part of our ‘Climbing Beyond Cancer’ initiative last year. Docteur Aline Mercan has been keeping us up to date with feedback from her patients – if you need a […]
The latest newsletter – edition #5 – is out!
Time to talk about the most common cancer in men aged 15-44.
In our series of articles about the different types of cancer, we move on to two rare but agressive forms of the disease, and whose awareness month is February. Gallbladder cancer The gallbladder is part of the digestive system. It is a small pouch that stores bile, a fluid that helps to break down fats […]
It reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and colon cancer – while keeping our gut microbiome and brain healthy. Yet we all eat far too little of it. What could it be? Fibre! And while 30g a day is the target, most of us are falling short. We know. We’ve said […]
Back in the early days of CAC, we were about selling as many T-shirts as possible to raise as much money as we could to fight cancer. That’s still our primary aim. But as time has gone on, we’ve also started to look more carefully at WHAT we’re selling in terms of our impact on […]
Sometimes we think we should have called ourselves Climbers against Cancers, plural, because there isn’t just one type. In fact, there are more types of cancer than months in the year, which is quite a depressing thought! There are some variants depending on what country you are in, but if we look at the list […]
I’m Dana Miller (56ish), California boy. Bishop to be exact. My folks were climbers back in the 60’s/70’s so we were raised at the Buttermilks living in a Tipi : I suppose I started climbing as a kid getting dragged around by my folks but it wasn’t until college(1988), that I really found the passion […]
New Year, New-sletter! And there’s so much to tell you that we needed a bumper double edition! We hope you agree it makes for an interesting read! We’ll be putting it out on social media of course, so please, share, SHARE, SHARE!! The more people we reach, the more awareness we raise and the more […]
Olympian and Team GB member Molly Thompson-Smith and our Trustee Lynn Robinson bumped into each other at the Kendal Mountain Festival this year. They got talking and one thing led to another… next thing you know Molly had agreed to become an Athlete Ambassador for CAC! Here’s what she has to say about her reasons […]
As a charity we often focus on research into cancer, and more recently into living with and beyond the disease. But the age old saying ‘prevention is better than cure’ also applies to cancer. So much physical and emotional pain (and expense to our stretched healthcare systems and the economy in general) could be avoided […]
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