Quick links: Clinical Trials – Coping and Support – For Family and Caregivers – Screening – Survivorship
Treatments and Side Effects – Types of Cancer
Education courtesy of the National Cancer Institute.
Clinical Trials
If You Want to Find Ways to Prevent Cancer…Learn About Prevention Trials
Covers things you should know when deciding to take part in a clinical trial that may help find ways to prevent cancer.
Providing Your Tissue For Research: What You Need To Know
Covers things you should know and think about when deciding to donate your tissue to research. Tissue can include materials from your body such as skin, hair, nails, blood, and urine.
Explains the importance of tissue donation, addresses potential concerns, and encourages patients to speak with their healthcare provider about donating samples.
Taking Part in Cancer Treatment Research Studies
Covers things you should know and think about when deciding to take part in a cancer treatment clinical trial.
Coping and Support
Coping with Advanced Cancer
Covers the choices for care and symptom control for the patient with late-stage cancer, along with the emotional and communication issues it brings.
Taking Time: Support for People With Cancer
Covers the feelings and concerns of people with cancer and their families.
For Family and Caregivers
Caring for the Caregiver
A condensed version of “When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer,” it covers practical, coping, and communication tips for friends and family members caring for loved ones with cancer.
Facing Forward: When Someone You Love Has Completed Cancer Treatment
Covers coping strategies to help cancer caregivers adjust their focus to the recovery phase once treatment is over for their loved one with cancer.
When Your Brother or Sister Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens
Tips on what to say to your friends, how to deal with stress, and where to find support – as well as information about cancer and cancer treatments, for young people who have a brother or sister with cancer.
When Your Parent Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens
Tips on what to say to your friends, how to deal with stress, and where to find support – as well as information about cancer and cancer treatments, for young people who have a parent with cancer.
When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer
Covers practical, coping, and communication tips for friends and family members caring for loved ones with cancer.
When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer: Support for Caregivers
Covers coping strategies and communication tips to address the concerns that cancer caregivers face when their loved one has been told that he or she has advanced cancer.
Screening
Understanding Breast Changes: A Health Guide for Women
Explains next steps after an abnormal mammogram result, including information about how conditions are diagnosed and treated.
Understanding Cervical Changes
Explains next steps after an abnormal Pap or HPV test result, including how cervical conditions are diagnosed and treated – as well as information about screening guidelines and HPV vaccines.
Understanding Prostate Changes
Explains prostate cancer symptoms, risk factors, the PSA test, and other prostate conditions including BPH and prostatitis.
Survivorship
Facing Forward: Life After Cancer Treatment
Covers both the physical and emotional post-treatment issues for cancer survivors.
Facing Forward: Making a Difference in Cancer
Covers the different ways of volunteering or becoming involved in cancer-related activities.
Treatments and Side Effects
Chemotherapy and You: Support for People With Cancer
Covers side effects that patients may have during chemotherapy and ways to manage them.
Chemotherapy Side Effects Series
Series of eighteen (18) side effects sheets — each with practical steps and advice to help you manage side effects from chemotherapy, so you feel better during treatment.
Eating Hints: Before, During, and After Cancer Treatment
Covers eating problems that patients may have during treatment for cancer and ways to manage them.
Helping Providers Help Their Patients: Using the Chemotherapy Side Effect Series
Tips to help you connect with your patients so they are empowered to take steps to manage chemotherapy side effects, feel better, and comply with treatment.
Helping Providers Help Their Patients: Using the Radiation Therapy Sheets
Tips to help you talk with your patients so they are empowered to take steps to manage radiation therapy side effects, comply with treatment, and feel better.
Pain Control: Support for People With Cancer
Covers pain control medicines for cancer patients, pain control plans, talking with your health care team about pain, and coping with the physical and emotional effects of pain.
Radiation Therapy and You: Support for People With Cancer
Covers side effects that patients may have during radiation therapy and ways to manage them.
Radiation Therapy Side Effects Series
Series of nine (9) side effects sheets – each with practical steps, tips, and advice to help you manage side effects from radiation therapy, so you feel better during treatment.
Thinking About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Covers how to make informed choices when looking for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
Understanding Chemotherapy
Get answers to commonly asked questions about chemotherapy using this interactive pamphlet.
Understanding Radiation Therapy: What To Know About Brachytherapy (A Type of Internal Radiation Therapy)
Learn what to expect during internal radiation therapy, also called brachytherapy, and get answers to commonly asked questions.
Understanding Radiation Therapy: What To Know About External Beam Radiation Therapy
Learn what to expect and get answers to commonly asked questions about external beam radiation therapy.
Types of Cancer
Anyone Can Get Skin Cancer
Covers skin cancer risk information for minority audiences. The goal of the brochure is to dispel the belief that only people with light skin are at risk for skin cancer.
Surgery Choices for Women with DCIS or Breast Cancer
Covers the types of breast surgery, such as breast-sparing surgery and mastectomy, and helps women decide which surgery is the best choice for them.
Treatment Choices for Men With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
Covers the treatment options for early-stage prostate cancer, such as active surveillance, surgery, and radiation therapy, and helps men decide which treatment is the best for them.
What You Need To Know About™ Bladder Cancer
Covers possible risks, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for someone recently diagnosed with bladder cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Brain Tumors
Covers possible risks, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for someone recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.
What You Need To Know About™ Breast Cancer
Covers treatment options, types of cancer doctors, second opinion, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Cervical Cancer
Covers treatment options, second opinion, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with cancer of the cervix.
What You Need To Know About™ Colon Cancer
Covers treatment options, second opinion, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with cancer of the colon.
What You Need To Know About™ Cancer of the Esophagus
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.
What You Need To Know About™ Hodgkin Lymphoma
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.
What You Need To Know About™ Kidney Cancer
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with kidney cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Cancer of the Larynx
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with cancer of the larynx.
What You Need To Know About™ Leukemia
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with leukemia.
What You Need To Know About™ Liver Cancer
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with liver cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Lung Cancer
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with lung cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Myeloma
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
What You Need To Know About™ Melanoma and other Skin Cancers
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with melanoma or another skin cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
What You Need To Know About™ Oral Cancer
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with oral cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Ovarian Cancer
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Cancer of the Pancreas
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas.
What You Need To Know About™ Prostate Cancer
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with prostate cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Stomach Cancer
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with stomach cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Thyroid Cancer
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
What You Need To Know About™ Cancer of the Uterus
Covers treatment options, follow-up care, and sources of support for someone recently diagnosed with cancer of the uterus.