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Cancer Council WA services
These publications provide details about support and services provided by Cancer Council WA.
Accommodation for regional patients brochure
Information about the two Cancer Council WA self-catering accommodation lodges in Perth.
Cancer information and support services brochure
Information about the range of service, information and support we offer to those affected by cancer.
Counselling services brochure
This brochure provides information on counselling services available through the Cancer Council.
Cancer Council 13 11 20 bookmark
A useful reference for Cancer Council's 13 11 20, cancer information and support service.
Dot's Place - Peel cancer support centre brochure
Information about the range of services, information, and support available at Dot’s Place Peel.
Dot's Place - South West cancer support centre brochure
Information about the range of services, information, and support available at Dot’s Place South West.
Life Now brochure
Information about introductory, evidence-based group courses for cancer patients and their primary carer.
Regional cancer support services brochure
This brochure outlines the range of support, professional services and information we offer to those affected by cancer.
Wig service brochure
This brochure provides information on the Cancer Council Wig Services and Products by Post.
Understanding types of cancer
Understanding anal cancer
This fact sheet has been prepared to help you understand more about anal cancer.
Understanding bladder cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about bladder cancer.
Understanding bowel cancer
This booklet is to help you understand more about bowel cancer (colon or rectal).
Understanding brain tumours
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about brain and spinal cord tumours.
Understanding breast cancer
This booklet is to help you understand more about early and locally advanced breast cancer.
Understanding cervical cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about cervical cancer.
Understanding cancer of the unknown primary
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about cancer of unknown primary.
Understanding head and neck cancer
This booklet is to help you understand more about head and neck cancers.
Understanding kidney cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about kidney cancer and renal cell carcinoma.
Understanding liver cancer
This guide is for people affected by primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma).
Understanding lung cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about lung cancer.
Understanding melanoma
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about melanoma.
Understanding ovarian cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about ovarian cancer.
Understanding pancreatic cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about cancer of the pancreas.
Understanding mesothelioma
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about mesothelioma
Understanding primary bone cancer
This fact sheet has been prepared to help you understand more about primary bone cancer, also known as bone sarcoma.
Understanding prostate cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about prostate cancer.
Understanding secondary bone cancer
This fact sheet has been prepared to help you understand more about secondary bone cancer.
Understanding secondary liver cancer
This fact sheet is to help you understand more about secondary liver cancer.
Understanding stomach and oesophageal cancers
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about stomach and oesophageal cancers.
Understanding testicular cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about testicular cancer.
Understanding thyroid cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about thyroid cancer.
Understanding uterus cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about cancer of the uterus.
Understanding vaginal cancer
This booklet is to help you understand more about vaginal cancer
Understanding vulvar cancer
This booklet is to help you understand more about vulvar cancer
Understanding less common types of cancer
Understanding rare and less common cancers fact sheet
We hope this booklet will help you understand more about rare and less common cancers.
Understanding appendix cancer and pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP)
Understanding appendix cancer and pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP).
Understanding adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC)
Understanding adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC).
Understanding gall bladder cancer
Understanding gall bladder cancer.
Understanding neuroendocrine tumours (NETs)
Understanding neuroendocrine tumours (NETs).
Understanding ocular (uveal) melanoma
Understanding ocular (uveal) melanoma.
Understanding penile cancer
Understanding penile cancer.
Understanding soft tissue sarcoma
Understanding soft tissue sarcoma.
Understanding small bowel cancer
Understanding small bowel cancer.
Understanding upper tract urothelial cancer
Understanding upper tract urothelial cancer.
Understanding treatment
Understanding palliative care
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about palliative care for people affected by cancer.
Understanding radiation therapy
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about radiation therapy.
Understanding surgery
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about surgery.
Understanding chemotherapy
Topics include 'what is chemotherapy?', managing side effects, making treatment decisions and supportive care.
Practical and support information
Breast prostheses and reconstruction
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about breast prostheses and reconstruction.
Facing end of life
This booklet is for people dying with cancer and their families and friends.
Fertility and cancer
This booklet is to help you understand more about the impact of cancer treatment on fertility.
Sexuality, intimacy and cancer
This booklet aims to help you understand and deal with the ways cancer and its treatment may affect your sexuality.
Understanding cancer pain
This booklet will give you useful information to help understand pain and manage it with different treatments.
Living with Advanced Cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand more about advanced cancer – a cancer that has spread, come back, or is at a late stage when diagnosed.
Understanding complementary therapies
This booklet is to help you understand more about complementary therapies.
Talking to kids about cancer
A cancer diagnosis for a child can be a sudden and overwhelming experience. Find out more about talking to kids about cancer.
Cancer in the School Community - A guide for staff members
This is a resource for school staff, providing information and tools to understand and respond when someone in the school community is affected by cancer.
Understanding clinical trials and research
This booklet aims to help you make an informed decision about participating in cancer research.
Coping with cancer
Caring for someone with cancer
Emotions and cancer
This booklet is to help you understand more about the emotional impact of cancer.
Understanding grief
This booklet is to help you understand more about your grief when someone close to you has died from cancer.
LGBTQI+ People and Cancer
This booklet has been prepared to help you understand how cancer and its treatment may affect LGBTQI+ people.
Exercise, nutrition and wellbeing information
Exercises for people living with cancer: These videos provide some simple strength-training exercises, including exercises to develop balance, strengthen core muscles and build strength. These exercises are also in the Exercise for People Living with Cancer booklet.
Finding Calm During Cancer Podcast: In the Finding Calm During Cancer podcast, join psychologist Dr Lisbeth Lane as she guides you through a series of meditation and relaxation practices.
Life Now Exercise and Nutrition DVD – staying well during and after cancer: This series of videos will help you understand the importance of exercise during and after cancer treatment, provide information about the clinical recommendation about exercise for people with cancer and includes easy exercises that you can do at home and quick and easy recipe ideas.
Life Now Meditation and Relaxation CD: This CD introduces people affected by cancer to a number of simple meditation techniques to help decrease stress and bring about a calmer mind. Listen to the benefits from an experienced Life Now meditation facilitator and hear how meditation has helped others cope with cancer.
Life Now audio series: Downloadable audio tracks from the five Life Now audio series: Cancer and sexuality; Communication; Life after cancer treatment; Meditation and relaxation; Eating well and keeping active.
Arm & shoulder exercises after surgery - a guide for people who have had breast cancer surgery
This poster describes how to perform arm and shoulder exercises after surgery for breast cancer.
Exercise for people living with cancer
This booklet aims to provide information about the benefits exercise may have during and after cancer treatments.
Living well after cancer
This booklet is for people who have finished their primary cancer treatment or are on maintenance therapies.
Nutrition for people living with cancer
This booklet is to help you understand more about eating well before, during and after treatment for cancer.
On the road to recovery
This booklet provides information for people who have finished cancer treatment.
Nutrition fact sheet- fibre in foods
A guide to higher and lower fibre foods
Nutrition fact sheet - easy snacks
High protein and/ or energy snacks that are easy to prepare
Nutrition fact sheet - high iron foods
A guide to boosting iron intake
Nutrition fact sheet - High energy & high protein foods
High energy and protein foods to maintain muscle mass, stay strong and recover
Nutrition fact sheet - Soft diet
Soft food ideas for easy eating
Nutrition fact sheet - Acid reflux
Practical tips to manage acid reflux
Nutrition fact sheet - Taste changes
Practical tips to manage taste changes
Nutrition fact sheet - Nausea
Practical tips to manage nausea
Nutrition fact sheet - Loss of appetite
Practical tips to manage loss of appetite
Nutrition fact sheet - Dry mouth
Practical tips to manage dry mouth
Nutrition fact sheet - Diarrhoea
Practical tips to manage diarrhoea
Nutrition fact sheet - Constipation
Practical tips to manage constipation
Legal, work and financial information
Cancer and your finances
This booklet has been prepared to help you manage the financial impact of a cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Cancer care and your rights
This booklet is for people starting their journey through the health care system after a cancer diagnosis.
Cancer, work and you
This booklet has been prepared to help you manage your working life after a cancer diagnosis.
Guides to Best Cancer Care
Guides to Best Cancer Care: A lot can happen in a hurry when you’re diagnosed with cancer. These guides can help you make sense of what should happen. They will help you with what questions to ask your health professionals to make sure you receive the best care at every step.
Fact sheets
Telehealth for cancer patients and carers fact sheet
Information about what telehealth is and how it can help you with your medical appointments
Understanding changes in thinking and memory
This fact sheet may help you understand more about changes some people experience.
Dealing with debts
This fact sheet provides information for people who are having trouble paying their debts.
Employment and cancer
This fact sheet answers some common questions people have about their rights at work.
Fatigue and cancer
This fact sheet is to help you understand more about fatigue, a common side effect of cancer and treatments.
Understanding immunotherapy
This fact sheet is to help you understand more about immunotherapy, a treatment offered to some people with cancer.
Mouth health and cancer treatment
This fact sheet is to help you understand more about the possible mouth changes you may experience from cancer treatment.
Understanding peripheral neuropathy and cancer
This fact sheet is to help you understand more about the nerve condition known as peripheral neuropathy.
Questions to ask your doctor
This fact sheet is a guide which you may want to use to ask questions about your diagnosis and treatment.
Understanding taste and smell changes
This fact sheet is to help you understand the common side effect for people before, during and after treatment for cancer.
What happens to debts after death
This fact sheet explains what happens to debts after a person dies.
Understanding targeted therapy
This fact sheet is to help you understand more about targeted therapy treatment.
Lymphoedema factsheet
This fact sheet is a guide for those affected by Lymphoedema.
Hair loss factsheet
This fact sheet provides information on hair loss that may result as a side effect of cancer treatment.
Clinical trials fact sheet
This fact sheet is to help you understand clinical trials.
Multilingual resources
Booklets, fact sheets and videos in several community languages: Cancer Council has developed resources with information about cancer, reducing your risk, diagnosis, screening and treatment in several community languages.