Understanding colon cancer
Audiobook
Published:
01 May 2024
Next review:
01 May 2027
Edition:
6
This audiobook explains colon cancer, covering causes and symptoms, diagnosis, staging and grading, treatments and clinical trials. It also looks at emotional, practical and financial issues.
You can also listen to this audiobook on Soundcloud.
In this audiobook
- 1 Information about this audiobook and other support from Macmillan
- 2 Introduction
- 3 The colon and cancer
- 4 Finding out you have bowel cancer
- 5 Staging and grading colon cancer
- 6 Tests on the bowel cancer cells
- 7 Treatment overview for colon cancer
- 8 How your treatment is planned
- 9 Preparing for treatment - prehabilitation
- 10 Surgery for colon cancer
- 11 Before and after your operation
- 12 Bowel function after surgery
- 13 If you have a stoma
- 14 Chemotherapy for colon cancer
- 15 Side effects of chemotherapy
- 16 Treatment for advanced bowel cancer
- 17 Follow up after treatment
- 18 Sex and fertility
- 19 Your feelings
- 20 Relationships
- 21 Help with money and benefits
- 22 Work
- 23 About our information
- 24 Other ways we can help you
- 25 Other organisations
- 26 Further resources
- 27 Can you do something to help
- 28 Information about this recording
Published:
01 May 2024
Next review:
01 May 2027
Edition:
6
This audiobook explains colon cancer, covering causes and symptoms, diagnosis, staging and grading, treatments and clinical trials. It also looks at emotional, practical and financial issues.
You can also listen to this audiobook on Soundcloud.
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