Free PDF
Starting Chemotherapy Pack
Practical preparation for treatment days and the days between cycles.
A preparation and tracking pack for treatment information, urgent contacts, medicines, symptoms, treatment-day logistics and family handovers.
What’s inside
- Build the 24-hour safety system
- One-page treatment map
- Treatment day: remove avoidable stress
- Cycle diary
- Take-home medicines
- Symptoms: record, then use the team's rules
- Food, fluids, mouth and fatigue
- Home precautions after treatment
- The carer's job: continuity, not clinical decisions
- Blood tests, appointments and decisions
- Practical life: take work away from the person in treatment
- Sources and support lines
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