Understanding kidney cancer
This audiobook explains what kidney cancer is, also called renal cell cancer (RCC). It covers staging and grading, treatments, and clinical trials. It also talks about emotional, practical and financial issues, and ways of coping with a diagnosis of kidney cancer.
You can also listen to this audiobook on Soundcloud.
Listening time: around 2.5 hours
In this audiobook
- 1 Information about this audiobook and other support from Macmillan
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Finding out you have kidney cancer
- 4 The kidneys and the lymphatic system
- 5 Kidney cancer
- 6 Staging and grading kidney cancer
- 7 Treatment overview for kidney cancer
- 8 How your treatment is planned
- 9 Surgery to treat kidney cancer
- 10 Before and after surgery for kidney cancer
- 11 Tumour ablation
- 12 Arterial embolisation
- 13 Monitoring a kidney cancer
- 14 Targeted therapy to treat kidney cancer
- 15 Immunotherapy to treat kidney cancer
- 16 Radiotherapy to treat kidney cancer
- 17 Clinicial trials - research
- 18 Follow-up, wellbeing and recovery
- 19 Your feelings
- 20 Relationships
- 21 Talking to children about cancer
- 22 Help with money and benefits
- 23 Work
- 24 About our information
- 25 Other ways we can help you
- 26 Other organisations
- 27 Further resources
- 28 Can you do something to help
- 29 Information about this recording
This audiobook explains what kidney cancer is, also called renal cell cancer (RCC). It covers staging and grading, treatments, and clinical trials. It also talks about emotional, practical and financial issues, and ways of coping with a diagnosis of kidney cancer.
You can also listen to this audiobook on Soundcloud.
Listening time: around 2.5 hours
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