Managing the bowel late effects of pelvic radiotherapy

Booklet
Published: 01 Jul 2021
Next review: 01 Jul 2024
Edition: 1

This booklet is about the bowel late effects of pelvic radiotherapy. It is for anyone treated with pelvic radiotherapy who has bowel side effects that continue after treatment, or begin months or years later.

View online
You can also order a physical copy of this booklet on Macmillan Orders with ID: MAC18911
Published: 01 Jul 2021
Next review: 01 Jul 2024
Edition: 1

This booklet is about the bowel late effects of pelvic radiotherapy. It is for anyone treated with pelvic radiotherapy who has bowel side effects that continue after treatment, or begin months or years later.

About this booklet

This booklet gives information about possible side effects affecting the bowel caused by pelvic radiotherapy that continue on from during treatment, or begin three months or more after treatment. It describes treatments that can help, ways of managing late effects and signposts to other sources of support.


This booklet does not have information about bladder late effects of pelvic radiotherapy. We have another booklet about this called Managing the bladder late effects of pelvic radiotherapy.


Visit our online information about late effects of pelvic radiotherapy.


We want everyone affected by cancer to feel our information is written for them. To do this we use plain English and we try to make it accessible and relevant to the widest range of people. Read more about how we produce our information.

Tag: TMT, SDEF