Other Useful Links:

Local Cancer Support Centre:

• Sutton Coldfield Cancer Support Centre

Hospitals and clinics in our area:

• Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield

• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

• Spire Parkway Hospital

• Spire, Little Aston
• The Priory Hospital, Edgbaston
• Walsall Manor Hospital
• Lymphoedema Clinic, St Giles Hospice
• John Taylor Hospice, Erdington

Cancer Information:

• Cancer Help (from Cancer Research UK)
• Breast Cancer Care  
• Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Lymphoedema Information:

• Lymphoedema Clinic, St Giles Hospice
• Document - advice for post-surgical breast patients
• Lymphoedema Support Network

Support for younger people with cancer

• Shine Cancer Support

Benefits Advce

• Macmillan Benefits advice

Other Local Services

• Pink Ribbon Programme - post-operative exercise classes at Perform Physiotherapy, Spire Little Aston Hospital.
• Relate Macmillan Counselling Service

Specialist lingerie, prosthesis and swimwear companies

• There are a number of companies who offer specialist support for ladies who have had surgery for breast cancer.  For advice please contact the Breast Friends helpline or ask one of the Breast Care nurses.  
• Knitted Knockers UK - a charity that provides free lightweight breast forms for everyday use and for swimming