Body image and cancer
This audiobook is about how cancer and its treatment may affect your body image. This is the way you think and feel about your body.
Treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonal therapy and targeted therapies can change the way your body looks, works or feels. People affected by cancer are often worried about their body image. There are things you can do to improve your body image, and ways to get help and support.
This information is for anyone who is worried about changes to their body caused by cancer or cancer treatment. We hope it helps you deal with some of the questions or feelings you may have.
You can also listen to this audiobook on Soundcloud.
In this audiobook
- 1 Information about this audiobook and other support from Macmillan
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Body image
- 4 Cancer and body changes
- 5 How body image concerns may affect you
- 6 Getting used to the changes to your body
- 7 Managing anxiety, low mood and other difficult feelings
- 8 Dealing with other people's reactions
- 9 Sexuality, intimacy and body changes
- 10 What can help with body image
- 11 Make-up, clothing and accessories
- 12 Helping you take control
- 13 Developing a better body image
- 14 About our information
- 15 Other ways can help you
- 16 Other organisations
- 17 Further resources
- 18 Can you do something to help
- 19 Information about this recording
This audiobook is about how cancer and its treatment may affect your body image. This is the way you think and feel about your body.
Treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonal therapy and targeted therapies can change the way your body looks, works or feels. People affected by cancer are often worried about their body image. There are things you can do to improve your body image, and ways to get help and support.
This information is for anyone who is worried about changes to their body caused by cancer or cancer treatment. We hope it helps you deal with some of the questions or feelings you may have.
You can also listen to this audiobook on Soundcloud.
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