| # | Book Details |
|---|---|
| 151 | Understanding Bowel Cancer -A guide for people with cancer, their families and friends This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about bowel cancer (also known as colorectal cancer). Many people feel shocked and upset when told they have bowel cancer. We hope this booklet will help you, your family and friends understand how bowel cancer is diagnosed and treated. We also include information about support services. |
| 152 | Understanding Palliative Care - A guide for people with cancer, their families and friends This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about palliative care (sometimes called supportive care). Although palliative care is for anyone with a life-limiting illness, this booklet has been written specifically for people affected by advanced cancer. |
| 153 | Weaving Palliative Care into Primary Care: A Guide for Community Health Centers Primary palliative care should include routine screening using validated tools and direct treatment for individuals whose symptoms can be managed in the primary care setting. Those with more serious psychiatric symptoms should be appropriately triaged to specialists |
| 154 | When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer This booklet is for you if your loved one has been told that he or she has advanced cancer that is no longer responding to treatment. It explores many of the questions and crossroads you may be facing now. |
| 155 | Withdrawing from Dialysis Treatment Information for Patients and their Families This booklet answers questions that are most commonly asked about withdrawing from dialysis. It is not unusual to think about this when other medical conditions or long term complications of your dialysis treatment are adversely affecting your health and outlook on life. However, even serious complications can often be treated and get better. When this happens, it is sometimes hard to believe that you ever thought about stopping your dialysis treatment |