Coping physically

• Blood calcium levels

  • Body calcium

  • High calcium

  • Managing high calcium

  • Low calcium levels

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Bowel problems

  • The bowel

  • Types of problems

    • The bowel and cancer

    • Diarrhoea

      • Symptoms

      • Causes

      • Managing

        • Assessment

        • Treatment

        • Tips

      • What to ask

    • Constipation

      • Symptoms

      • Causes

      • Managing

        • Assessment

        • Diet

        • Laxatives

      • What to ask

    • Obstruction

    • Other bowel problems

      • Chronic constipation

      • Wind

      • Colostomy and ileostomy

  • What to ask

  • About this section

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• Breathing problems

  • Breathlessness

  • Symptoms

  • Causes

  • Treating breathlessness

    • Your doctor

    • Helping yourself

  • What to ask

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  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Cancer and pain control

  • About cancer pain

  • Types and causes

  • Treating pain

    • Who treats pain

    • Measuring pain

    • Barriers to treatment

    • How it's treated

    • Painkillers

      • What they are

      • Types

      • Side effects

    • What to ask

  • Support

  • Research

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Diet problems

  • About diet problems

    • Why diet is important

    • Types of problems

    • Causes

      • The cancer

      • Treatment

    • What to ask

  • Managing diet problems

    • Where to start

    • Drugs for diet problems

      • Drugs

      • Side effects

    • Soft diet

      • Why have it

      • Difficulty swallowing

      • Meals

    • Tube feeding

    • Putting on weight

      • Boosting energy

      • Adding calories

      • High calorie drinks

    • Alternative diets

    • Tips

    • Advanced cancer

    • What to ask

  • Your feelings

  • Research

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Fever

  • What fever is

  • Causes of fever

    • The cancer

    • Infection

      • Where infection starts

      • Infection after treatment

      • Infection types

      • Symptoms

    • Other causes

  • Treating fever

    • Finding the cause

    • Treating the cause

    • Treating symptoms

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• GVHD

  • About GVHD

  • Symptoms

  • Diagnosis

  • Prevention

  • Treatment

    • Acute GVHD

    • Chronic GVHD

    • Drugs for GVHD

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Hormone symptoms

  • Sex hormones

  • Coping

    • Flushes and sweats

    • Sex symptoms

    • Thinking and memory

    • Bone loss

    • Mood changes

    • Breast swelling in men

    • Urinary problems in women

    • Weight and muscle changes

    • Sleep problems

    • Heart problems and diabetes

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Lymphoedema

  • About

  • Risk

  • Symptoms

  • Diagnosis

  • Treating

    • Types

    • Skin care

    • Compression

    • Massage

    • Exercise

    • Research

  • Coping

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

  • About this section

• Mouth problems

  • Types and causes

  • Treating mouth problems

  • Mouth care

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Sickness

  • About sickness

  • Causes

    • Cancer

    • Treatment

    • Other causes

  • Treating sickness

    • How to treat

    • Drug types

    • Side effects

    • Other ways

    • Advanced cancer

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Sex, sexuality and cancer

  • About your sexuality and sex life

  • How cancer can affect your sexuality and sex life

  • Sex and cancer for women

  • Sex and cancer for men

  • Sex and cancer if you are single

  • Sex and cancer for partners

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Skin problems

  • The skin

  • Types of problems

  • Dealing with skin problems

    • Itching

    • Sweating

    • Sore skin

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Spinal cord compression

  • What it is

  • Treating

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Tiredness

  • What fatigue is

  • Symptoms

  • Causes

  • How to measure it

  • Treating fatigue

  • Research

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

• Ulcerating cancers

  • What they are

  • Symptoms

  • Looking after them

  • Treating ulcerating cancers

  • Life with an ulcerating cancer

  • What to ask

  • About this section

  • Organisations

  • Reading list

Coping practically

• Financial support

  • Benefits

  • Grants

    • Cancer charities

    • Children's cancer charities

    • Ex-services organisations

• Overseas visitors

  • NHS treatment

  • Private treatment

  • Organisations

• Travelling with cancer

  • How you may be affected

  • UK travel

  • Travel abroad

  • When not to go

  • Taking medicines

  • Taking care

  • Tips

  • Finding out more

  • Travel insurance

• Money matters

  • Mortgages

  • Pensions

  • Planning

  • Credit cards

  • Loans

  • Life insurance

  • Medical insurance

  • Car insurance

  • Travel insurance

• What you can do

• Who can help

Dying with cancer

• Coping with the news

  • Finding out

  • Other people

  • Supporting children

• Talking about dying

• Difficult decisions

  • Questions

  • Where to die

  • End of life care

  • Leaving memories

  • Spiritual needs

  • The last few weeks

    • Symptoms

    • Complementary therapies

  • Practical issues

  • Getting help

  • What to ask

• Final days

• Carers

• After death

  • Practical issues

  • Grief

• About this section

• Help and support

• Reading list

Your tips and stories

• Tips on coping physically

• Tips on coping emotionally

  • It helps to talk to your children

  • My BRCA1 gene story

  • Pseudomyxoma peritonei survivor

  • Staying positive with prostate cancer

  • Cancer survivors talk about cancer information

  • Breast cancer survivors talk about their experiences

  • Using information to help me cope with my cancer

  • Stay as positive as you can

  • Personality and outlook on life

  • Having radioactive iodine treatment

  • Surviving childhood lymphoma

  • Bladder cancer at 27

  • Coping after treatment finishes

  • Taking part in a clinical trial

  • Something to keep you going

  • On diagnosis with a very rare brain tumour

  • Writing a diary

  • Setting up a business after breast cancer

  • Having treatment for bowel cancer

  • Nicole's story

  • Testicular cancer at 24

  • Our surprise baby

  • Living with metastatic breast cancer

  • Breast screening saved my life

  • Coming to the end of chemotherapy for breast cancer

  • My fight for Herceptin

  • My experience of finding a lump in my breast

  • Breast cancer and the BRCA gene

  • Losing a baby due to cancer

  • Hope after cervical cancer

  • Oral cancer - why did it happen to me?

  • Coping with a diagnosis of cancer

  • A brief insight through my son's journey

  • 10 years after childhood AML

  • My daughter's determination

  • How I set up a support group

  • My non Hodgkin's lymphoma story

  • Oesophageal cancer and a positive mental attitude

  • Living with prostate cancer

  • My one percent - a prostate cancer story

  • Living and dying with prostate cancer

  • Synovial sarcoma

  • Positive thinking can help

  • The preciousness of life after lymphoma - Take time to smell the flowers

  • Taking part in a clinical trial

  • Remember who you are and what you are about

  • A vulval cancer story

  • Having cancer is not the end

  • Don't give up hope!

  • Positivity

  • Not enough room in this body for breast cancer!

  • Beating cancer is a journey

  • Coping with non small cell lung cancer

  • Check your moles!

  • Having an amputation

  • Surprise - a brain tumour at 26!

  • Having ovarian cancer at 14

  • A Hodgkin's lymphoma story

  • Getting through breast cancer treatment

  • Advice - when your partner has cancer

  • The wrong way to deal with cancer

  • Living with bone cancer

  • What chemo means to me

  • A trial to prevent breast cancer

  • Getting through skin cancer

  • Coping with Hodgkin's lymphoma

  • That blasted 'C' word!

  • The day my life stopped... and began

  • Feelings about follow up

  • Breast cancer - a husband's perspective

  • I love life!

  • A light at the end of the tunnel

  • One stage at a time

  • Think bigger, be bolder, fight harder

  • Synovial sarcoma continued

  • Surviving childhood cancer

  • Annoying your cancer - part 2

  • Lung cancer success story

  • Beating throat cancer

  • Battles with lymphoma

  • Annoying your cancer

  • Surviving leukaemia

  • My daughter's brain tumour

  • A chemotherapy success story

  • One year after breast cancer treatment

  • Being positive

  • My dad's throat cancer story

  • My future after acute myeloid leukaemia AML

  • My husband's chemotherapy story

  • Hair loss from chemotherapy

  • My wife's battle with cancer

  • A breast cancer story - 10 months on

  • Having internal radiotherapy

  • A story of love, hope and strength

  • My mothers bowel cancer story

  • A Burkitt's lymphoma story

  • Coping with cancer of the tonsil

• Tips on coping practically

  • Cancer survivors talk about cancer information

  • Breast cancer survivors talk about their experiences

  • How I coped with night sweats

  • Testicular cancer at 24

  • Understanding my breast cancer diagnosis

  • How I survived prostate cancer

  • Infertility after testicular cancer

  • My prostate cancer experience

  • Cancer of the ear canal

  • Living with a colostomy

  • Returning to work after cancer treatment

  • Living with metastatic breast cancer

  • Breast screening saved my life

  • Coping with hair loss as a result of cancer treatment

  • Not enough room in this body for breast cancer!

  • A trial to prevent breast cancer

  • Coping with drains after breast surgery

  • I love life!

  • My fight for Herceptin

  • A website about my tongue cancer

  • My melanoma story

  • The importance of self screening

  • My daughter's determination

  • Mastering multiple myeloma

  • How I set up a support group

  • Recognising ovarian cancer

  • Life after penile cancer

  • Living with prostate cancer

  • Remember who you are and what you are about

  • Advice - when your partner has cancer

  • Living and dying with prostate cancer

  • Annoying your cancer

  • Annoying your cancer - part 2

  • My daughter's brain tumour

  • A chemotherapy success story

  • Being positive

  • Life after surgery for oesophageal cancer

  • My skin cancer story

  • My stem cell transplant

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