Understanding melanoma: surgery to remove a melanoma
Audiobook
Published:
01 Nov 2022
Next review:
01 Nov 2025
Edition:
4
This audiobook talks has information about having a mole removed and surgery to remove a melanoma. There is information about different types of melanoma, melanoma symptoms and risk factors, how melanoma is diagnosed and treated, and coping with treatment effects and emotions.
In this audiobook
- 1 Information about this audiobook and other support from Macmillan
- 2 Introduction
- 3 What is cancer and about melanoma
- 4 Causes and risk factors, and signs and symptoms of melanoma
- 5 Diagnosing and staging melanoma
- 6 Treating melanoma
- 7 After treatment for melanoma
- 8 Your feelings
- 9 Relationships
- 10 Financial help and benefits
- 11 Work
- 12 About our information
- 13 Other ways we can help you
- 14 Other useful organisations
- 15 Further resources
- 16 Can you do something to help
- 17 Information about this recording
Published:
01 Nov 2022
Next review:
01 Nov 2025
Edition:
4
This audiobook talks has information about having a mole removed and surgery to remove a melanoma. There is information about different types of melanoma, melanoma symptoms and risk factors, how melanoma is diagnosed and treated, and coping with treatment effects and emotions.
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