About Maggie's CancerLinks
What is Maggie's CancerLinks?
Maggie's CancerLinks is a cancer information website based on on pilot site from the Thames Valley (CancerLinks) The site aims to help cancer patients, their friends, families and carers find high quality information about cancer and its treatment. We have also produced some generic information for many sections in the site to start you on your journey through the internet.
Why was Maggie's CancerLinks created?
There is a huge amount of cancer information available on the internet which can be overwhelming. Lots of people with cancer and carers have commented about the difficulties they have finding information on the internet about cancer and its treatment.
There are over 600 million links displayed for "cancer" using a popular search engine (Google) and even if you have a more detailed search like "breast cancer treatment" there are still over 120 million hits. A large number of these websites are unregulated and may mis- inform their visitors. It can be difficult to tell which sites are the ones which you can trust.
External websites linked to from Maggie's CancerLinks have been have been quality assessed. For details of how we do this please visit our How do we choose which sites to link to? section..
Page last edited: 23 March 2012
