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Bowel Cancer and Bowel Function: Practical Advice, a guide for people with bowel cancer
This booklet provides information on how and why bowel function sometimes changes after treatment for bowel cancer. Each person will settle to their own unique pattern. There are no rules; this information will provide only guidelines and helpful hints. The treatment of bowel cancer usually involves major abdominal surgery. It sometimes involves the use of chemotherapy or radiation treatment or both. The treatment of your bowel cancer may change the way in which your bowel functions.
To view the booklet online please go to http://www.cancernz.org.nz/assets/files/info/BowelCancerAndBowelFunction.pdf
Couples and Cancer Study
Dr Helen Conaglen, Waikato Clinical School, is currently recruiting an additional 10-12 couples for her study looking at understanding the impact that prostate or colon cancer has on men and their partners during the time he is undergoing treatment. The study will help us understand how medical treatment of a man’s cancer might impact his partner and their sexual relationship.
If you are interested or know of anyone that is, please see the below forms:
