Understanding rectal cancer
The audiobook explains what rectal cancer is, and how it is diagnosed and treated. It also talks about your feelings when you are diagnosed with cancer and has practical advice on dealing with work and finances. When we mention bowel cancer in this audiobook, this includes rectal cancer.
View our online information about rectal cancer.
We have separate information about small bowel cancer, colon cancer and anal cancer.
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 rectum and cancer
- 4 Finding out you have rectal cancer
- 5 Staging and grading rectal cancer
- 6 Tests on cancer cells
- 7 Treatment overview for rectal cancer
- 8 How your treatment is planned
- 9 Preparing for treatment - Prehabilitation
- 10 Surgery for rectal cancer
- 11 Before and after your operation
- 12 Bowel function after surgery
- 13 If you have a stoma
- 14 Chemotherapy for rectal cancer
- 15 Side effects of chemotherapy
- 16 Radiotherapy for rectal cancer
- 17 Radiotherapy for advanced rectal cancer
- 18 Side effects of radiotherapy
- 19 Chemoradiation for rectal cancer
- 20 Treatment for advanced rectal cancer
- 21 Follow up after treatment
- 22 Sex and fertility
- 23 Your feelings
- 24 Relationships
- 25 Help with money and benefits
- 26 Work
- 27 About our information
- 28 Other ways we can help you
- 29 Other organisations
- 30 Further resources
- 31 Can you do something to help
- 32 Information about this recording
The audiobook explains what rectal cancer is, and how it is diagnosed and treated. It also talks about your feelings when you are diagnosed with cancer and has practical advice on dealing with work and finances. When we mention bowel cancer in this audiobook, this includes rectal cancer.
View our online information about rectal cancer.
We have separate information about small bowel cancer, colon cancer and anal cancer.
You can also listen to this audiobook on Soundcloud.
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