Cancer in Your Language

CancerBACUP provides an interpreting service – Cancer in Your Language. It is staffed by qualified interpreters who have had training in cancer terminology and who interpret the call between the service user and the specialist CancerBACUP information nurses. This means that people can access high quality information and support in their language.

There are 12 “direct to language” numbers for the most commonly spoken community languages.

Arabic  0808 800 0130
Bengali  0808 800 0131
Cantonese  0808 800 0132  
French  0808 800 0133
Greek   0808 800 0134  
Gujarati  0808 800 0135
Hindi   0808 800 0136  
Polish  0808 800 0137
Punjabi  0808 800 0138  
Turkish  0808 800 0139
Urdu   0808 800 0140 
Vietnamese   0808 800 0141

Most other community languages can also be accessed through the main freephone number, 0800 800 1234, and the nurse who answers then contacts the interpreting service to find an interpreter in the language needed.

You can order posters and cards which promote this service from our publications section.