Eye cancer reading list
This page gives details of a selection of books and leaflets about eye cancers. There is information about
You can find a list of books about cancer, treatments, and living with cancer on our general reading list.
Lost Eye: Coping with Monocular Vision after Enucleation or Eye Loss from Cancer, Accident, or Disease
Jay Adkisson
Publisher: iUniverse, 2006
ISBN: 978-0595392643
Jay Adkisson compiled this collection of emails and message threads from LostEye.com's website, along with articles and other helpful information to help people who have lost an eye to cope with the experience. The message is that life can continue as normal after the loss of an eye. The book is American so some issues are not relevant for a UK reader.
Cancer At Your fingertips (3rd edition)
Val Speechley and Maxine Rosenfield
Class Publishing; 2001
ISBN 978-1859590362
Facts about cancer and cancer treatments set out in question and answer form. Includes information on diet, exercise, sex and relationships, holidays, employment and money matters.
Living with Cancer
Jeffrey Tobias, Kay Eaton and Gary Lineker OBE
Bloomsbury; 2001
ISBN 0747554102
Follows the BBC TV series of the same name. Covers treatment, side effects and different types of cancer, including head and neck cancers.
- Understanding head and neck cancer
- Diet and cancer
- Coping with advanced cancer
- Controlling cancer pain
- Controlling symptoms of cancer
- Lost for words – how to talk to someone with cancer
- Sexuality and cancer
- Understanding chemotherapy
- Understanding radiotherapy
- Coping with hair loss
- Coping with fatigue
- Understanding cancer research trials (clinical trials)
- The emotional effects of cancer
- Talking to children when an adult has cancer
- Talking about your cancer
From the Royal Marsden Hospital Trust
- Chemotherapy
- Radiotherapy
- Clinical trials
- Your operation and Anaesthetic
- After treatment
These booklets can be downloaded from the Royal Marsden website, or you can request them by calling freephone 0800 783 7176, or send an email to patientcentre@rmh.nhs.uk
Please contact us on our feedback form if you would like to recommend a book that you have found helpful. It helps us if you include the title, author, publisher's name, year, and ISBN number.







Read article




