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Practical help for patients, families and carers: what to ask, what to watch for, what it costs and who can help, in plain words.
Research your cancer type and see what works and what could work.
Week by week after a diagnosis, for your cancer type: the tests, the team, the decisions ahead, the questions to ask, the trials to mention and the help that costs nothing.
Tick the questions to ask for your cancer, add your own, and print or download one page for the appointment; each cancer also has a one-page sheet with room for the answers.
Start from the symptom: which treatments cause it, how often, and when to call.
Start from a worrying symptom: what it can mean, which test comes first, and the referral thresholds guidelines state.
Type the values from a pathology report and read what each one means. Nothing is stored.
Late effects to watch for after each treatment, the screening test, how often, and the guideline that says so.
Expert centres for your cancer in your country, the people who work on it, and how referral works where you live.
Manufacturer programmes, reimbursement and generics by country and product, plus national schemes and charities.
Everything you can get for nothing: free tumour and gene testing, screening and HPV vaccination, nurse helplines, rides and lodging, second opinions, trial travel help, wigs and prostheses, and open data. Who is eligible and where.
Medicare Part B or D, prior authorisation, list prices and assistance programmes for every approved product.
NICE, Cancer Drugs Fund and SMC decisions for every approved product, and how NHS cancer care works.
PM-JAY, Tata Memorial's subsidised care, National Cancer Grid pooled prices and what CDSCO has approved.
US insurers and plan types ranked by one published metric at a time, UK NHS entitlement against private medical insurance, and how ten countries pay for cancer drugs.
Each cost driver paired with what is being done and the ideas that could do more: biosimilars, negotiation, dose optimisation, shorter courses, parity, prior authorisation.
What people eat, drink, weigh and do: what the evidence says and what is hype.
Treating the person, not just the tumour: symptoms, side effects, nutrition, mental health.
What treatment took and whether it comes back: hair, hearing, fertility, bone, nerves, memory and the heart.
Acupuncture, mindfulness, yoga, herbs, diets, cannabis, cold caps and more: what the trials show, graded honestly, and what to avoid or never use instead of treatment.
Scalp cooling and the regimens it suits, minoxidil for lasting thinning, eyebrows and lashes, wigs on the NHS and by prescription in the US, which drugs cause it and when hair returns.
Treatment by treatment and effect by effect: whether recovery is usual, partial or unlikely, how long it takes, in what proportion, and the source for each answer.
The patients, families, advocates and pioneers whose lives and cases changed cancer.