Chemotherapy
Getting your Sex Life Back on Track after Treatment
Rather than providing a crude and abrupt strategy checklist, this fast fact sheet instead outlines a vast range of practical strategies patients could apply in their everyday life to improve their sex life...
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Assessing Concerns (in Patients with a Cancer Diagnosis)
This chapter explores how to properly assess patient concerns and provides guidance on how to approach this...
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Coping with Anger
Within the health care setting, it is important that patients and health professionals are sufficiently assisted in identifying, understanding and resolving situations involving anger so that the environment is as beneficial and productive as possible.
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Goal-Setting and Problem-Solving in Cancer Patients
Often health care professionals, when caring for cancer patients, must counsel the patient through their dispair and disillusionment with life.
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Things to Try when Feeling Down or Lacking Energy
Feeling down or lacking energy can seem all-consuming when one is in this state of mind. This fact sheet provides some practical strategies for inspiring motivation and positive thoughts.
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Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Where stress and other anxieties have caused a patient to be overcome with emotion, Progressive Muscle Relaxation can be utilised to assist the patient in releasing these concerns and thus more rationally dealing with their problems...
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Chemotherapy for People with Gynanecological Cancer
In this chapter learn more about chemotherapy; its purposes, administration and side-effects. Also, understand more about new target therapies...
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Older Men and Urology Problems
Summary of common urology problems in Older Men. Practical advice and strategies to help Older Men with Urology Problems.
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CBT Interventions for Cancer-Related Pain
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one method of dealing with cancer-related pain. By implementing CBT techniques in care provision, cancer patients may be able to gain even more effective pain relief.
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Returning to Work after Cancer
Another step in the cancer experience is returning back to work once treatment or rehabilitation has ceased. This can be a daunting experience in itself, thus this fact sheet provides a number of strategies which may assist in a more comfortable transitio
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Strategies to Manage Your Worry
Providing four easy steps to help manage your worry, this fact sheet encourages active self-help when an individual may be becoming overwhelmed by worrisome thoughts...
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Patient Concerns at End of Life and Intervention Strategies
The concept of 'End of Life' is often a frightening and distressing one for patients, their carers, their friends and their family. This fact sheet, therefore, provides guidance on this topic...
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Testicular Cancer: Michael's Story
This chapter relates the story of a young man who suffered from testicular cancer...
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Assessing Concerns
Often specialist health care professionals have patients that require additional medical support. This fact sheet is designed in a ready-to-use format, so that it can be immediately implemented in the clinical setting to ensure that even better care is pr
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How to Get a Good Night's Sleep
Difficulties in sleeping can be very immobilising as tiredness, stress, anxiety and isolation may follow as consequences of a lack of, or sporadic, sleep.
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Looking After Yourself During the Cancer Journey
This fact sheet provides some practical strategies for inspiring motivation and positive thoughts. Specifically addressing, looking after: (1) yourself daily; (2) your needs; (3) your relationships; (4) your emotions...
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Reaching Our Limit of Coping
This fast fact sheet provides both information about and a diagram of the stress threshold - how much we can handle and what we should do when we know we've reached that threshold...
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Practicalities and Challenges of Providing Psychosocial Care
This chapter explores the types of psychosocial care and how it is given to patients. It also uses examples and templates to clarify each point made...
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Strategies For Effective Information Provision
Communicating with patients, their families and their friends is both an important and sometimes difficult task. This may be because of a difference in medical understanding; ethical or moral perceptions; or an impaired mental state arising from health pr
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Maintaining Health and Wellbeing
Often cancer patients forget that their health and wellbeing encompasses more than just their physical health. This fast fact sheet provides suggestions for optimizing health and wellbeing...
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