Nasopharyngeal 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
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 (3rd edition)
Val Speechley and Maxine Rosenfield
Class Publishing, 2001
ISBN 978-1859590362

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 (also on audiotape)
Diet and cancer (also on audiotape)
Coping with advanced cancer (also on audiotape)
Controlling cancer pain (also on audiotape)
Controlling symptoms of cancer (also on audiotape)
Lost for words - how to talk to someone with cancer
Sexuality and cancer (also on audiotape)
Understanding chemotherapy (also on audiotape)
Understanding radiotherapy (also on audiotape)
Coping with hair loss (also on audiotape)
Coping with fatigue (also on audiotape)
Understanding clinical trials
The emotional effects of cancer (also on audiotape)
What do I tell the children - a guide for a parent with cancer
Talking about your cancer (also on audiotape)
Adjusting to life after cancer treatment (also on audiotape)

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, or sending an email to patientcentre@rmh.nhs.uk

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