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Understanding your treatment options for lung cancer

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Best Supportive & Palliative Care.

It may be that an anti-cancer treatment is not suitable for you. In this digital patient leaflet we will discuss best supportive and palliative care.

This care may be provided in:

  • Your own home – by District Nursing Teams, Hospice at Home services, community-based palliative care teams, or Marie Curie nurses.
  • Hospices
  • Hospitals – by hospital-based palliative care teams
  • Care homes

There is an excellent advisory service here in the district called the Palliative Care Network. It has lots of advice to support you and your family on its website: https://palliativecare.bradfordcraven.nhs.uk/

For more information on best supportive and palliative care, visit the Macmillan Charity website.

Listen to one of our clinical specialists explain this option:

Further questions and contact information

Your lung cancer nurse specialist team can answer any questions or concerns you have and help you to make any decisions you're unsure about. Please don't hesitate to contact them. You can find out more information and helpful links here on your patient journey microsite.

Accessible Information

If you need this information in another format or language and are in the hospital, please ask a member of staff. If you are accessing this leaflet online or on your phone you can see our Google Translate automated guidance on the Digital Patient Information Hub home screen.

People with hearing and speech difficulties

You can contact us using the Relay UK app. Textphone users will need to dial 18001 ahead of the number to be contacted.

Smoking

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a smoke-free organisation. You are not permitted to smoke or in use e-cigarettes in any of the hospital buildings or grounds.

Published by
, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford BD9 6RJ.

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Date of publication: Aug 2024
Review Date: Aug 2026
MID Ref: 24071012