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You may associate the concept of relaxation with classes full of women in leotards. This does not have to be the case! You will almost certainly undergo stresses which affect both your mind and body, and learning some basic relaxation techniques can help. This does not mean that you have to sit cross-legged on the [...]

You may spend days when you feel completely powerless to do anything – the loss of control over what is happening to your body can make you feel that the same has happened to the rest of your life. Most of us are not doctors, let alone cancer specialists, so our ignorance about the disease [...]

One of the main fears of many cancer patients is that they will suffer prolonged and uncontrollable pain. This should not be the case as advances both in understanding of the causes of pain and in methods of pain relief mean that pain can be effectively treated in most cases.

The nature of our society is [...]

If you are having internal radiotherapy, you will stay in hospital for your treatment. A fine needle, wire or tube carrying the radioactive “source” is placed into or next to the cancerous tissue under general anaesthetic, and remains in place until you have received the appropriate dose of radiation. After you have had the correct [...]

The main symptoms of lung cancer are

shortness of breath

chronic cough, sometimes with blood in the sputum

chest pain and/or infection

Most lung cancers originate in the air tubes in the lungs, and can be split into two main categories – non-small cell tumours and small cell tumours.

In diagnosing both small cell and non-small cell lung cancer, tests [...]