A new research conducted by the Macmillan Cancer Support has found that around 33% of Scottish people living with cancer face loneliness due to their condition.

The charity found that around one in four people living with cancer in the North-East is suffering from loneliness due to the cancer condition. The loneliness takes toll on cancer patients and they do not leave their houses and are unable to feed themselves.

They even start drinking more. A new study by Ipsos MORI has unveiled about how cancer patients feel after getting diagnosed with cancer. Many cancer patients have affirmed they have suffered loneliness since the time they have been diagnosed with the disease.

Cancer patients suffering from loneliness are three times more likely to drink more alcohol then they usually do. Moreover, they are almost five times more likely to not to leave the house for many days and three times more likely to face problems in sleeping.

Diet is one of the main things that suffer. There are number of reasons for not eating properly including, having no food in the house and being too weak to cook.

"This is a growing problem which is only set to get worse as the number of people diagnosed with cancer doubles from two to four million in the next 20 years", said Ciaran Devane, chief executive at Macmillan Cancer Support.