Selected Cancerbackup booklet titles are now available as audio cassettes to support anyone who requires an alternative to print.

If you are someone affected by cancer, or a relative, friend or carer you can get any of these cassettes free of charge. Health professionals can now also order them for free. Call 0800 500 800 or order online at www.be.macmillan.org.uk

The following titles are available to order now:

Site-specific cancers

• Understanding acute myeloid leukaemia
• Understanding brain tumours
• Understanding breast cancer
• Understanding cervical cancer
• Understanding cancer of the gullet (oesophagus)
• Understanding cancers of the head & neck
• Understanding early (superficial) bladder cancer
• Understanding Hodgkin lymphoma
• Understanding cancer of the kidney
• Understanding cancer of the large bowel (colon and rectum)
• Understanding chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
• Understanding lung cancer
• Understanding early stage melanoma
• Understanding myeloma
• Understanding non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Understanding cancer of the ovary
• Understanding cancer of the pancreas
• Understanding early (localised) prostate cancer
• Understanding advanced metastatic prostate cancer
• Understanding locally-advanced prostate cancer
• Understanding secondary cancer in the bone
• Understanding secondary cancer in the liver
• Understanding cancer of the skin 
• Understanding cancer of the stomach
• Understanding soft tissue sarcomas
• Understanding testicular cancer
• Understanding cancer of the womb (uterus)

Testing and treatments

• Understanding bone marrow and stem cell transplants
• Understanding bowel cancer screening
• Understanding breast screening
• Breast radiotherapy: possible side effects
• Understanding cervical screening
• Understanding chemotherapy
• Understanding radiotherapy
• Understanding cancer research trials (clinical trials)
• Understanding the PSA test

Living with cancer

• Adjusting to life after cancer treatment
• Coping with advanced cancer
• Caring for someone with advanced cancer
• Cancer and complementary therapies
• Diet and cancer
• Coping with fatigue
• Cancer genetics - how cancer sometimes runs in families
• Coping with hair loss
• Controlling cancer pain
• Relationships, sex and fertility - For young people affected by cancer
• Sexuality and cancer
• Controlling the symptoms of cancer
• Talking about your cancer
• Talking to children about cancer
• The emotional effects of cancer
• Travel and cancer
• Work and cancer

Symptoms and side effects

• Understanding lymphoedema