Patient Information Leaflets
Cancer Services
Please see our Patient Information Leaflets below
- Your treatment at UHD
- Preparation for radiotherapy treatment
- Radiotherapy for abdominal cancer
- Radiotherapy to a bony area (short course)
- Radiotherapy to the brain (short course)
- Completing your breast radiotherapy
- Radiotherapy for eye disease
- Radiotherapy for head and neck cancer
- Radiotherapy for head and neck cancer (short course)
- Radiotherapy for keloid scars
- Lung stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR)
- Radiotherapy for lung cancer
- Radiotherapy for lymphoma
- Oesophageal cancer surgery
- Radiotherapy for pelvic cancer (radical)
- Radiotherapy for pelvic cancer (short course)
- Completing prostate radiotherapy
- Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer
- Radiotherapy to the brain
- Managing hot flushes
- Dietary changes for diarrhoea during radiotherapy
- Skin care advice for patients receiving radiotherapy
- Upper gastro intestinal cancer team
- Oesophageal cancer surgery
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
Brachytherapy
- High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy (internal radiotherapy) to the cervix
- High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy (internal radiotherapy) to the vaginal vault
- Information regarding prostate brachytherapy preparation
- Low dose rate prostate brachytherapy service
- Prostate brachytherapy service HDR (high dose rate)
- Vaginal dilation therapy
Skin cancer
- Radiotherapy for skin cancer
- Wide local excision with general anaesthesia for skin cancer
- Wide local excision and skin flap for skin cancer
- Wide local excision with skin graft for skin cancer
- The Acti-V.A.C.™ portable negative pressure dressing system
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for skin cancer
- Groin dissection for skin cancer
- Excision biopsy for suspected skin cancer
- Axillary node clearance for skin cancer
