- Booklet: ''Younger People with Bowel Cancer"
- 4 About this booklet
- 5 Never Too Young
- 6 Know your healthcare teamYour diagnosis
- 9 What is bowel cancer?
- 10 Diagnosis
- 12 Your feelings
- 14 Telling people
- 15 You and your partner
- 15 Coping on your own
- 16 Talking to children
- 17 Telling a parent
- 19 Getting support
- 20 Genetic risk
- 20 Lynch syndrome
- 22 FAP
- 22 MAP
- 22 Genetic testing
- 24 Fertility
- 24 Fertility in women
- 26 Fertility in men
- 27 Questions to ask after your diagnosisYour treatment
- 29 Your treatment options
- 29 Surgery
- 30 Stomas
- 31 Staging and grading
- 31 Radiotherapy
- 32 Chemotherapy
- 32 If your cancer has spread
- 33 Biological therapies
- 33 Clinical trials
- 35 Coping with side effects
- 36 Complementary therapies
- 37 Questions to ask about your treatment optionsAfter treatment
- 39 Worries about the future
- 40 Follow-up
- 41 Side effects
- 42 Tiredness
- 42 Hernia
- 43 Nerve damage
- 44 Bowel function
- 45 Bladder function
- 46 Sexual function
- 48 Body image
- 49 Physical activity
- 51 Questions to ask at your follow-up appointments
- 53 Work and legal rights
- 54 Money and insurance
- 54 Childcare
- 55 Travel
- 56 Medical words used in this booklet
- 59 Other useful organisations
- 63 Further support
https://bowelcancerorguk.s3.amazonaws.com/Publications/Young%20persons%20guide%20to%20bowel%20cancer.pdf
"Bowel cancer usually affects older people, so it can be hard to find information and support that meets your needs. This booklet gives an introduction to how bowel cancer can affect your body, emotions, relationships and daily life. We’ve included some personal experiences of younger people diagnosed with bowel cancer. At the end of each section, we tell you where you can find more information. Contact details for all the organisations mentioned are listed at the end of this booklet. There’s also a list of the medical words used with their meanings"
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