Cancer Patient Guides in Spanish

This guide provides information on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of cancer care, including possible changes to your treatment plan and appointments, which may be necessary to keep you safe from infection.

Patients with cancer commonly experience pain due to the cancer itself, the cancer treatment, or a combination of both. This patient guide provides up-to-date guidance on the types of treatments for cancer pain and any possible side effects of its treatment.

The Patient Guide on Cancer Pain Management is available in Spanish.

This patient guide contains information on side effects associated with modern immunotherapies, known as checkpoint inhibitors, how your oncology team will manage these symptoms, and a few strategies you can use yourself to minimise their effects.

Patient Guide on Immunotherapy-Related Side Effects and Their Management is available in Spanish.

Cancer can affect bone health in several ways such as by spreading to the bones (bone metastases) or cancer treatment causing bone loss, which makes the bones more fragile and likely to fracture. Find out more here.

Survivorship is a unique and ongoing experience, which is different for each person and those close to them. A key to survivorship is to regain, as far as possible, the important aspects of life before cancer, and to find new pathways to a satisfactory life going forward. The Patient Guide on Survivorship is created by ESMO and ECPC in collaboration with IPOS.

The Patient Guide on Survivorship is available in Spanish.

Personalised medicine is the future of cancer medicine. In this guide, produced by ESMO, we provided an overview on governing principles, illustrating them through examples of personalised medicine approaches in several tumour types.

The Patient Guide on Personalised Medicine is available in Spanish.