Patient Guides: ESMO Patient Guides Compilation (Sweden)

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Primary purpose: To translate complex medical language about cancer into understandable information for patients.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: European Society for Medical Oncology.

Type of information: Guidelines for each step in the cancer journey including information on cancer incidence and epidemiology; diagnosis, pathology and molecular biology; staging and risk assessment; management of advanced and metastatic disease; personalised medicine; long-term implications and survivorship; palliative care; among other information specific to each cancer type. All guidelines have references and methodology sections. Click here to learn more.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more.

Access to information: Click here to access.

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