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Liver cancer reading list

Men and women discussing liver cancer

This page gives details of a selection of booklets and leaflets about liver cancer. There is information about

 

Booklets and factsheets from other organisations

From The British Liver Trust

  • Alcohol and liver disease
  • Cirrhosis of the liver
  • Diet and liver disease
  • First steps - a guide to your liver
  • Life after liver transplantation
  • Liver cancer
  • Liver disease tests explained
  • Liver transplantation

From Macmillan Cancer Support

  • Coping with advanced cancer (also on audiotape + CD)
  • Diet and cancer (also on audiotape + CD)
  • Lost for words - how to talk to someone with cancer
  • Sexuality and cancer (also on audiotape)
  • Talking about your cancer (also on audiotape + CD)
  • Talking to children when an adult has cancer
  • Understanding chemotherapy (also on audiotape + CD)
  • Understanding cancer research trials (clinical trials)
  • Understanding radiotherapy (also on audiotape + CD)

From CORE (previously the Digestive Disorders Foundation)

  • Liver cancer
 

Books

100 Questions and Answers about Liver Cancer  (2nd edition)
Ghassan Abou-Alfa
Jones and Bartlett Publishers 
ISBN 0763761745

This book offers answers to your questions about treatment options, and other issues about living with liver cancer. It is written by a cancer doctor (oncologist) and a gastrointestinal surgeon, and includes comments from patients and caregivers. There are some references to practices in the United States that may not apply to the UK. 

 

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