Understanding Cancer

• What is cancer?
• Cancer FAQs
• Understanding Cancer
• The skin

• Family history
• Melanoma: Q&A
• Glossary: what does this word mean?
• Question checklist

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Patient & Carer Rights

• Rights at work
• Insurance and superannuation
• Financial issues
• Commenting on health care

• Medical records and privacy issues
• Rights of carers
• Making treatment decisions
• Who can help?
• Rights and responsibilities
• Submission to the Home and Community Care (HACC) Program Inquiry
• What some carers do

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Emotions & Cancer

• Supporting someone with cancer
• Sharing feelings
• Emotions and Cancer: understanding your illness
• Body image and sexuality

• Dealing with the diagnosis
• Telling others
• Life after cancer

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Aboriginal People & Cancer

• Cancer Awareness: For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers
• Patterns of Cancer Care for Aboriginal People in NSW (APOCC)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources

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Advanced Cancer

• Advanced cancer
• Talking with family and friends
• The emotional impact
• What is Advanced Cancer?
• Death and dying
• Making treatment decisions
• Treatment
• Living with Advanced Cancer: seeking support
• When cancer won't go away
• The team
• Palliative Care: Q&A
• Advanced cancer, death and grief
• Advanced Cancer Telephone Support Group
• Introduction: Palliative care
• Introduction: Advanced Cancer

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Cancer Information

• Cancer Council Information Centres
• Useful websites
• Understanding Cancer program
• Understanding Cancer
• Cancer information library
• Other cancer information websites
• Recommended reading list
• Glossary: what does this word mean?

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Sex & Cancer

• How treatment can affect sexuality

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