Let’s all ‘Show Up’ to tackle cancer

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Welcome to South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Shows Up – a strategy and social movement designed to engage and involve all our communities and workforces in some bold ambitions to improve cancer outcomes in our region.

Unfortunately, we have one of the highest rates of cancer in England, with the lowest proportion of people diagnosed at an early stage where we can offer curative treatments. We need more of us to understand why that is and to take some confident steps in our own lives, communities, workplaces – and together – to start to turn the tide on cancer outcomes.

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Here you can discover all the initiatives and projects going on in your area to help tackle cancer.

Please get in touch if you have something to share, including items of news we can help promote as part of your commitment across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw to ‘showing up’.

Our 5 Ambitions

Achieving the Five Bold Ambitions of the Cancer Strategy requires South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw working together and Showing Up for each other.

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Shows Up is the multi-levelled communications and engagement strategy that can be tailored and implemented at place level and for specific target audiences.

Ambition One

Cancer is recognised as and treated as a long-term condition.

Recognise and support people living with cancer as a long-term condition ensuring the knowledge and skills to support people in a person-centred way is part of everyday training of all clinical professionals.

Ambition Two

Increase participation in cancer preventative measures to above the national rates.

Support the promotion and uptake of activities addressing the risks factors common to all cancer groups such as smoking, obesity, alcohol, lack of physical activity.

Ambition Three

Close the gap on cancer incidence rates between the most and least deprived areas for the three common cancers.

Through targeted prevention, reduce the gap between the number of newly diagnosed cancers for lung, bowel and breast in the most deprived populations compared to the least deprived.

Ambition Four

Three in four cancers will be diagnosed at an early stage.

Through targeted increase in vaccination, screening and case finding we will support earlier diagnosis. Through improved access and pathway management we will support faster diagnosis to improve the outcomes and experience for people affected by cancer.

Ambition Five

Reduce the rate in the number of people dying from cancer.

Through the collective impact of increased prevention, screening, earlier and faster diagnosis alongside access to effective treatment, research and support; we will reduce the rate in the number of people dying from cancer.

Let’s all ‘Show Up’ to tackle cancer

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