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Introduction This booklet has been produced to provide information to patients receiving intravenous chemotherapy. It is not meant to substitute the discussion between you and the nursing team treating...

Introduction This leaflet is intended to give you information on what will happen before you receive your chemotherapy/immunotherapy/targeted treatment and what will happen on the actual day of your...

Why this guidance? The Department for Transport brought in a new law in March 2015 which governs driving while taking certain drugs. This is aimed at improving road safety....

How to recognise the signs & symptoms Before you read this leaflet it is important that you understand that spinal cord compression only occurs in a small number of...

You have been referred by your doctor to see a Haematologist, a doctor who specialises in problems with the blood. During the appointment the haematologist may consider it necessary...

What is ascites? Ascites is a condition when too much fluid is produced inside the abdomen. Inside the abdomen there is a membrane called the peritoneum. The peritoneum produces...

Introduction This leaflet contains the answers to some questions patients and their carers may have about the disposal of chemotherapy waste and the management of a chemotherapy spillage in...

To book a free consultation please phone 01908 617 266 or 01908 611 277 Christos Hair, Newport Pagnell www.patienthaircare.org Introduction One of the visible side effects of chemo and...

The Influenza (Flu) Vaccine The flu vaccine is aimed at protecting people who are most at risk from catching or spreading flu. As the strain of flu virus changes...

Open Access Follow Up In the past, it has been traditional for patients who have completed their treatment for bowel cancer to have regular follow-up appointments with their surgeon,...