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Cancer of the Liver
UK sources of information and / or support
The leaflets section of Patient UK
Includes a leaflet called Primary Liver Cancer
British Liver Trust
Provides support to people with liver conditions, and contains numerous factsheets.
CancerHelp UK
CancerHelp UK is a free information service about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families. It is brought to you by Cancer Research UK. They believe that information about cancer should be freely available to all and written in a way that people can easily understand.
Royal Marsden
A leading UK cancer centre, recognised worldwide for the quality of its services. Site includes comprehensive, authoritative patient information. See their Patient Information section.
Children's Liver Disease Foundation
Caring for children and families suffering from liver disease.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support aims to help people live with cancer by providing information and emotional support for patients, their families and health professionals.
Liver Cancer
Factsheet from the Core
Radio frequency-assisted liver resection
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Radio frequency-assisted liver resection.
Ex-vivo Hepatic Resection and Reimplantation for Liver Cancer
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Ex-vivo hepatic resection and reimplantation for liver cancer.
Microwave ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Microwave ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Microwave ablation for the treatment of metastases in the liver
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Microwave ablation for the treatment of metastases in the liver.
Treating Liver Tumours
Information from the North London Cancer Network.
Medicine Guide for Liver Cancers
Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.
LIVErNORTH
LIVErNORTH is a regional adult liver patient support group based at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. For people with all kinds of liver disease.
Liver cancer
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
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- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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