Nasal and paranasal sinus cancer reading list

You can find a list of books about cancer, treatments, and living with cancer on our general reading list.

Looking Forward: the speech and swallowing guidebook for people with cancer of the larynx or tongue (4th edition)
Jack E. Thomas and Robert L. Keith
Thieme Medical Publishers; 2005
ISBN 3136662040
Has information about cancer treatments and how to manage problems with speech and swallowing. It includes exercises for improving speech and swallowing, and tips on tube feeding.

Cancer At Your fingertips (4th edition)
Val Speechley and Maxine Rosenfield
McGraw-Hill; 2004
ISBN: 0074713728

Facts about cancer and cancer treatments set out in question and answer form. Includes information on diet, exercise, sex and relationships, holidays, employment and money matters.

Living with Cancer
Jeffrey Tobias, Kay Eaton and Gary Lineker OBE
Bloomsbury; 2001
ISBN 0747554102

Follows the BBC TV series of the same name. Covers treatment, side effects and different types of cancer, including head and neck cancers.

From Macmillan Cancer Support

Understanding cancer of the head and neck 
Diet and cancer (also on audiotape and CD)
Coping with advanced cancer (also on audiotape and CD)
Controlling cancer pain (also on audiotape and CD)
Controlling symptoms of cancer (also on audiotape)
Lost for words - how to talk to someone with cancer
Sexuality and cancer (also on audiotape and CD)
Understanding chemotherapy (also on audiotape)
Understanding radiotherapy (also on audiotape and CD)
Coping with hair loss (also on audiotape and CD)
Coping with fatigue 
Understanding clinical trials
The emotional effects of cancer (also on audiotape)
Talking about your cancer
Adjusting to life after cancer treatment
Talking to children when an adult has cancer (also on audiotape and CD)
The emotional effects of cancer (also on audiotape and CD)
Money worries? How can we help?

From the Royal Marsden Hospital Trust

Chemotherapy
Radiotherapy
Clinical trials
Your operation and Anaesthetic

These booklets can be downloaded from the Royal Marsden website, or you can request them by calling freephone 0800 783 7176.

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