Your clinical team might give you printed information or links to useful information related to your treatment and care. You can find all our patient information leaflets in this section of our website.
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Most of our leaflets are now on here as webpages. A few leaflets are still only available as PDFs - these are in the list at the end of this page, below the webpage versions.
This information is produced by staff at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. It is not sponsored or influenced in any way.
We make every effort to ensure information is accurate and complete and we hope that it will add to any professional advice you have had. Information is based on evidence and accepted guidelines (where appropriate). We review and update it regularly. If you are worried about your health, please tell your clinical team.
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Printed versions
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Patient leaflets
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Results beginning with A
- Adding extra nourishment to your food when you have diabetes
- Advice to patients with a cardiac implantable electronic device – pacemakers or ICDS
- Arthralgia
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Results beginning with B
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Results beginning with C
- Cancer of Unknown Primary
- Chemotherapy group pre-assessment sessions
- Choosing a wig
- Computerised Tomography (CT) scans
- Contact x-ray brachytherapy for rectal cancer (Papillon)
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Results beginning with D
- Deep inspiration breath hold technique for lymphoma patients
- Drinking instructions prior to planning CT scan (cervical cancer)
- Driving and diabetes
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Results beginning with E
- Eating well and coping well with side-effects on a vegan diet
- Eating well and coping with side-effects
- External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for adults for the treatment of a soft tissue sarcoma
- External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for prostate cancer
- External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) to secondary bone cancer
- External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) to the breast or chest wall
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Results beginning with H
- Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) nursing and support team
- High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy for cancer of the cervix
- High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy to the skin
- High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy to the vaginal vault
- How can we help? (Holistic Needs Assessment)
- Hypos (hypoglycaemia)
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Results beginning with I
- Immune-related hepatitis
- Immunotherapy
- Infliximab - frequently asked questions
- Information for people with Type 2 diabetes commencing steroids
- Insertion of a rectal spacer for radiotherapy
- Instructions for preparation prior to planning (prostate)
- Introduction to On Treatment Review Radiographers
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Results beginning with L
- Lenalidomide (Revlimid) switch to generic equivalents
- Lidocaine 2% mouthwash
- Liver surveillance service
- Low residue diet information
- Lung cancer nursing team
- Lymphoedema advice
- Lymphoma and CLL team
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Results beginning with M
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Results beginning with N
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Results beginning with P
- Palliative radiotherapy for lung cancer
- Patient information for referral for consideration of SABR
- PET-CT: Having a PET-CT scan
- Pituitary and craniopharyngioma – radiotherapy
- Prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) - preventative radiotherapy to the brain
- Prostate cancer nursing and support team
- Proton beam therapy to the eye
- Proton beam therapy: Frequently asked questions and other useful information
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Results beginning with R
- Radiology and diagnostic imaging
- Radiotherapy for cancer of the uterus and cervix
- Radiotherapy for lymphoma
- Radiotherapy for rectal cancer
- Radiotherapy for skin cancer
- Radiotherapy patient information leaflet
- Radiotherapy to the bladder
- Radiotherapy to the brain
- Radiotherapy to the head or neck
- Radiotherapy to the oesophagus (gullet)
- Radiotherapy to the vulva
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Results beginning with S
- Safe sharps disposal
- Scalp cooling - a guide for patients
- Sentinel lymph node injection
- Sick day rules for people on basal bolus or pre-mixed insulin
- Sick day rules for people on once-daily long-acting insulin
- Simple lymphatic drainage - head and neck
- Skin cancer nursing team
- Skin care advice for patients on immunotherapy treatment
- Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) to the chest
- Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) to the spine
- Stereotactic radiosurgery
- Supported self management and patient-directed open access - MGUS
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Results beginning with T
- Teenage and Young Adult service
- Total body irradiation (TBI)
- Treatment of prostate cancer with high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy in combination with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT)
- Treatment of prostate cancer with high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy
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Results beginning with U
- Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) nursing and support team
- Use of gold markers in the treatment of prostate cancer with radiotherapy
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Results beginning with V
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Results beginning with W
- What are ketones?
- What to do after an extravasation
- Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) to secondary brain tumours
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Results beginning with Y
- You and your gastrostomy feeding tube
- You and your PICC line
- You and your Totally Implanted Vascular Access Device (TIVAD) - Portacath
- Your cancer treatment in your community
- Your nasogastric (NG) feeding tube and medication
Patient information leaflets - PDFs
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The Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) Cancer Service V4.0 |
| folder icon | Diabetes leaflets |
| folder icon | Radiotherapy |