Patient information
When a referral is made to the hospital and a cancer diagnosis is made individuals may receive multiple leaflets and pieces of information.
We have included our frequently used information below.
NHS App
You can view messages about your care in the NHS App.
The NHS App is a simple and secure way to receive messages from your trusted health care providers.
Make sure to turn on notifications for the NHS App to stay up to date.
Download the NHS App or find the same services on the NHS website:Â www.nhs.uk/nhs-app
Referral to the hospital
Please follow the link below for more information and resources when you are referred to hospital
Breast team
Understanding ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
Understanding breast reconstruction
Understanding secondary breast cancer
Understanding risk-reducing breast surgery
Managing the late effects of breast cancer treatment
Ultrasound Breast Patient Information Leaflet
Lung team
Understanding lung cancer (audiobook)
Managing Your Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Understanding your small cell lung cancer
Understanding Brain Metastases and Lung Cancer
Understanding Bone Metastases and Lung Cancer
Travelling, Going on Holiday and Lung Cancer
A leaflet for lung cancer patients, or those supporting someone going through lung cancer
Colorectal team
Your pathway – a guide to bowel cancer treatment (Bowel Cancer UK)
Your operation – a guide to bowel cancer surgery (Bowel Cancer UK)
Eating well – a guide to diet and bowel cancer (Bowel Cancer UK)
Younger people with bowel cancer – a guide for the under 50s (Bowel Cancer UK)
Urology team
Understanding early (localised) prostate cancer
Understanding advanced (metastatic) prostate cancer
Advanced bladder cancer & your treatment choices
High risk Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer & your treatment choices
Low risk & intermediate-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer & your treatment choices
Surviving bladder cancer & living every moment
What is a TURBT? (Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumour)
Low dose-rate brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer
Life with a urostomy (urinary stoma)
Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP)
Endoscopy team
The Endoscopy department at Airedale General Hospital is a Joint Advisory Group (JAG) accredited unit and the service offers a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures listed below:
- Gastroscopy- Looking at the upper part of the digestive system, the food pipe (oesophagus), stomach, and first part of the small bowel (duodenum) via the mouth.
- Trans-nasal Endoscopy– Looking at the upper part of the digestive system, the food pipe (oesophagus), stomach, and first part of the small bowel (duodenum) via the nose or mouth.
- Colonoscopy or Sigmoidoscopy- Looking into the large bowel via the anus or stoma.
- Bronchoscopy- Looking into the Lungs and air passages, though the nose or mouth.
- ERCP (Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography)- A procedure to diagnose and treat problems of the Biliary System using an endoscope and a type of X-ray.
Endoscopy is performed by consultant gastroenterologists, surgeons, accredited doctors and specially trained clinical endoscopists. Our department also provides screening as part of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
For more information on the endoscopy unit and procedures here at Airedale, please follow the link below:
Location: C16
Contact details for endoscopy unit: 01535292341
If you require any information relating to your appointment, please contact our waiting list office on 01535 292345
Opening hours: 8.00am to 6.00pm, Monday to Friday
Pathology team
The pathology department at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust provides an essential service to the hospital and local community. We provide pathology testing for doctors, nurses and GP’s which helps them determine what is wrong with you and also to monitor how your treatment is working. The majority of decisions about your care will be a result of tests that are performed by our department. Our consultant staff also provide a comprehensive advice service to these professionals. We test a wide variety of different types of samples from both hospital patients and GP surgeries. The most common type of samples received is blood samples.
Location: C46
Contact details: 01535 293441
For more information on the pathology services here at Airedale, please follow the link below:
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