Understanding radiotherapy
Audiobook
Published:
01 Aug 2022
Next review:
01 Aug 2025
Edition:
13
This audiobook is about radiotherapy. It is for anyone who is having radiotherapy or has been offered it as part of their cancer treatment.
In this audiobook
- 1 Information about this audiobook and other support from Macmillan
- 2 Introduction
- 3 What is cancer and what is radiotherapy
- 4 Before your treatment and meeting your radiotherapy team
- 5 Planning your treatment and questions you may wish to ask about your radiotherapy
- 6 External radiotherapy
- 7 Internal radiotherapy
- 8 Side effects of radiotherapy
- 9 Life after radiotherapy
- 10 About our information
- 11 Other ways we can help you
- 12 Other organisations
- 13 Further resources
- 14 Can you do something to help
- 15 Information about this recording
Published:
01 Aug 2022
Next review:
01 Aug 2025
Edition:
13
This audiobook is about radiotherapy. It is for anyone who is having radiotherapy or has been offered it as part of their cancer treatment.
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How we can help
Macmillan Support Line
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