You have obviously found our website as cancer is a concern to you at the moment. Perhaps you are directly affected, or possibly a member of your family or a friend.

You might think that these days being diagnosed with cancer no longer holds the fears it once did. There are, after all, many treatment options, support staff and counselling networks available to help you. Yet the sheer volume of often conflicting information and advice can prove paralysing to a person’s ability to make a reasoned judgement just when they feel their lives have been taken out of their control and they are being asked to make what can be life or death decisions on how to tackle their illness.

Having access locally to up-to-date information and support from people who understand the enormous stress of coming to terms with cancer is a key element in combating the disease. We believe that it is vital that the North of Surrey should have its own local centre so that, having the right information at the end of a phone call or, by calling into the centre, you could well save your own or, someone else's, life.

We are not alone in this belief; both Macmillan Cancer Support, the Cancer Network and Cancer Involvement User Group, of which one of our Commitee is a member, all recognise and support the need for such a centre in the North of Surrey.

By working together we can continue to help everyone who needs us. Thank you.