“I don’t think I cried with friends or family often if at all. However, one day, very early in my diagnosis, when I was home alone I rang the Cancer Society and spoke to one of the care team.

Love your lady parts and smear your mea!
It’s Cervical Screening Awareness Month.

Fantastic to see two of our senior politicians put things aside for charity - a game of Monopoly with our winning bidder for our Daffodil day fundraiser - thanks Hamish, Rob, Paul Goldsmith, Grant Robertson, and The Thistle Inn!

We’d like you to meet Lochie, a seriously inspiring six year old. Lochie decided to go skiing for 40 days to raise funds for our Otago/Southland division.

This Mental Health Awareness Week we’d like to remind you that we’re here for you. We know that going through cancer is tough and can raise many questions.

Talking to your whānau about cancer is one of the hardest things you can do. Andrew tells us “I was 37 and my children were 1, 4 and 6 years old.

Cancer Society staff all across the country are practicing introducing themselves in Te Reo Māori for Māori Language Week. Here’s Charlie teaching us how.

Next week is Māori Language Week. We’re really excited to be a part of the Māori Language Moment at 12pm on Monday 14th September. How will you be celebrating Māori Language Week?

Prostate cancer accounts for 27% of all cancers in men.

Last month over 30 people shared their experiences with cancer to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Daffodil Day. We’d like to thank them all for sharing their amazing and inspiring stories!

Over 1600 daffodils were planted on daffodilday. org. nz in August. Here’s just a few of the daffodils that were planted and the people you told us you were planting them for. Thanks for your support!

Daffodil Day looked a bit different this year but was more important than ever. Auckland had to cancel their street collection and everywhere else collectors wore masks and practiced safe distancing.

Here just a few of the amazing volunteers who collected donations for our street appeal. Thanks for your support!
If you didn’t get a chance to donate in person, you can still donate using the link in our bio.

Check out our Daffodil Day dogs! We’ve snapped some pics of a particularly cute canine collector and some snuggly socially distanced supporters!

I’m Vienna. I’m 25 years old now and I’ve been volunteering for the Cancer Society in some way, since I was 5.

I had been ill off and on for about 9 months with no answers. After a number of tests they found renal cell carcinoma. I didn’t expect that. I felt numb and lost.

Today is Daffodil Day! Please look out for our amazing, friendly collectors. There's thousands of volunteers collecting all across New Zealand.

For the last 30 years, a group of year 7 and 8 students from Feilding Intermediate have collected for Daffodil Day. As a teacher at Feilding Intermediate, I supported this initiative for 23 of those years.

I found out I had prostate cancer after a routine blood test. I’d been checked before and those tests came back negative. Luckily the early detection meant 20 doses of radiation at Dunedin hospital cured the problem.

Hello my name is Pravina. I’ve been honoured to be part of Daffodil Day since 1990 when it began. I was working with the National Bank (now ANZ) when they became the principal sponsor.

I was bleeding heavily, and a scan revealed I had stage 3 cervical cancer. When they told the me the news the world stopped for a second.

“I was 49 and having my regular mammogram when I got the letter to ‘come back in for an appointment’. I had cancer in my milk duct, which had spread to my lymph nodes.

“I was 20 years old, saving for my OE, when I started feeling really tired and putting on weight. I went to see our family GP who said that, being a ‘young Maori woman’, I must be pregnant.

I'm Judy Rodger and I’ve worked at ANZ for 30 years. In 2004, I found a way Bluff oysters could help raise money for the Cancer Society. The plan was simple.

My name is Clare Hewitt, my story is on behalf of our #TeamHewitt family. My husband Tuta'i was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009. His dad had also had prostate cancer.