Next Friday (September 26), more than 15,000 schools will take part in The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning to help Macmillan Cancer Support raise vital funds for those affected by cancer.
With cancer affecting one in three people, and two million people currently living with cancer in the UK, the reality is that your students are likely to be close to someone affected by cancer.
Macmillan figures show that nearly a quarter of a million school children believe cancer is contagious. One in five (21 per cent) believe that cancer is always fatal, and more than half (52 per cent) don’t know what cancer is. It is therefore no surprise that more than half (53 per cent) of children feel frightened when they say or hear the word “cancer”.
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