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. Call 020 7696 9003 or order online.

If you are a health professional you can purchase the cassettes at the special introductory price of £2.29 (£1.95 +VAT) each. Visit our online catalogue to find out more.

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 breast screening
• Understanding cervical screening
• Understanding chemotherapy
• Understanding radiotherapy
• 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

This video is for patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy. It has been scientifically evaluated to reduce anxiety.

The film includes:

• Footage of patients actually having treatment.
• What goes on behind the scenes.
• The more common side effects of treatment and ways to alleviate them.
• Patients who have just finished treatment, describing their experiences.

Running time: 20 mins

If you are someone affected by cancer, or a relative, friend or carer this video cassette is available at £13.25 (incl VAT & P+P). Call 020 7696 9003 or order online.

If you are a health professional this video cassette is available at £13.25 (incl VAT & P+P). Visit our online catalogue to find out more.

This video is available in English only. For audio/visual products in languages other than English please see the other languages section.

Listening Books is a charity that provides an audio postal library for adults and children. They currently have free membership for anyone who has cancer.  Contact Louise Powell on 020 7407 9417 or lpowell@listening-books.org.uk to join.  To find out more about the charity go to www.listening-books.org.uk