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Cervical cancer is cancer that's found anywhere in the cervix, which is the opening between the vagina and the womb.

This page has been produced for patients diagnosed with anal cancer. It aims to help you understand the patient pathway and make you aware of the various treatment options that might be available to you.

An exciting newly upgraded mobile cancer care unit ‘Helen’ officially launches in Gloucestershire on 15 April, continuing to bring life-saving cancer care closer to cancer patients across the county.

Do you feel that you are in a daily battle with your pain? Is your mind full of thoughts, fears, frustrations or muddle? Do you feel like you are always rushing? Does your mind and body feel disconnected? Mindfulness can help you find a calmer way to live life despite having pain.

You may experience taste changes and/or a loss of appetite. This may be caused by your treatment, nausea and vomiting or by a sore mouth.

This page gives you information about care following your gastroscopy and Bravo™ capsule placement.

The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and Cheltenham MP, Alex Chalk, paid a special visit to Cheltenham General Hospital yesterday (Thursday 14 March) to see our new £17.2m dedicated surgical unit and two theatres.

You have been advised to have a flexible sigmoidoscopy to help investigate the cause of your symptoms. It is important that you read this page before you have the procedure so that you understand what will happen and the preparation involved.

This page gives you information about your planned Transoesophageal Echocardiogram (TOE).

This page gives you information about having a Computed Tomography (CT) guided abdominal or pelvic biopsy. It explains how the procedure is carried out and some of the possible complications.

During the operation to treat your retinal condition, a bubble of gas or silicone oil was put into your eye. It is important that the gas or oil bubble floats into the correct position to support the part of the retina that needs flattening.

This page gives you information about faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), including the benefits, risks and what to expect.

Thanks to donations, patients and their loved ones at the Gloucestershire Oncology Centre have the opportunity to write poems with our poet in residence Brenda Read-Brown.

Flexor tendons are the elastic cord like structures which arise from the muscles in the forearm, running into the hand and attached to the bones of the fingers.

Some babies cry and seem unsettled around the time of a feed

This page gives you information about having a robotically assisted Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy (TLH) and answers some of the questions that you may have.

You can help more patients get diagnosed and treated faster by supporting the latest CT Scanner Appeal in Gloucestershire - patients such as seriously ill children and people with cancer.

Gloria Hunniford is heading up a campaign to promote the delivery of localised NHS cancer treatment with the use of mobile cancer care units.

This procedure is designed to straighten the finger, and is something that people usually opt to do because of restriction in the function of the hand as a result of Dupuytren’s disease.

This page gives you information about having an operation on your leg to bypass a narrowing or blockage in a blood vessel. This information answers some of the commonly asked questions with regard to hospital admission, the operation and discharge home.