Living with cancer
Understanding treatment
Can I exercise during cancer treatment?
How physical activity may fit around cancer treatment, when exercise needs adapting, and which warning signs to discuss with your team.
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Living with cancer
Practical explanations about everyday life, support and uncertainty during and after cancer treatment.
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Living with cancer
Understanding treatment
Cancer-related fatigue: why rest may not be enough
How cancer-related fatigue differs from ordinary tiredness, what may contribute to it and practical questions to discuss with your clinical team.
Living with cancer
Understanding treatment
Can I travel during cancer treatment?
Questions to consider before travelling during cancer treatment, including timing, infection, blood clots, medicines, insurance and when to ask your team.
Living with cancer
Understanding treatment
Why do I still feel like a cancer patient after treatment?
Why finishing cancer treatment may not feel like an immediate return to normal, and when physical or emotional effects deserve further support.
Living between cancer scans: making room for everyday life
Practical ways to live with uncertainty between cancer scans without allowing every day to become a countdown to the next result.
Scanxiety: coping with worry before a cancer scan
Why anxiety around cancer scans is common, what may help while waiting, and when to ask your clinical team for support.
What do you say to someone with cancer?
How to offer support when someone has cancer, listen without pressure, and leave room for ordinary life as well as difficult conversations.
I did everything right. Why did I get cancer?
Why cancer can develop in people who have looked after their health, and why risk factors change probability rather than determine an individual outcome.
Living with cancer
Understanding treatment
When should I contact my cancer team urgently?
UK guidance on urgent treatment-related symptoms, using your oncology advice line and recognising situations that need 999 rather than a routine appointment.
Living with cancer
Understanding treatment
Eating during cancer treatment: what if appetite or weight changes?
How to approach poor appetite, weight loss and eating difficulties during treatment, and when to ask for dietetic or urgent support.
Living with cancer
Understanding treatment
What are late effects of cancer treatment?
Why some treatment effects persist or appear later, how risks differ between treatments and what to discuss at follow-up.
These articles provide general information. Your clinical team can explain what applies to your own situation.