This is a book for you who have been forced on an involuntary journey – the cancer journey. Whether it is you who have a cancer diagnosis or you are a relative of someone with cancer, this is your book.

You will get help in defining and talking about what needs for support you have. The book contains tangible tools, good contact lists and examples of support offered by society.

Currently it is possible to order a printed copy in Swedish from Region Halland. Click here to get a copy home delivered (Swedish only).

The very purpose of the checklist is to help you and your treatment team pay attention to your needs for support and treatment. Simply put: your rehabilitation needs! You can fill in the checklist prior to contact with the healthcare centre, health insurance authority or prior to preparation of your travel itinerary. It might be a good idea to revise this checklist from time to time in order to identify new needs and cross out handled ones.

The most important thing is that you get answers to the questions that are of importance to you when you get in contact with, for example, healthcare centre or health insurance authority. Remember that this is YOUR cancer journey and YOUR life – there are no stupid questions!
Your checklist is, on one hand, a form that will help you prepare what you feel you need answers on. But, perhaps, above all, it is a form you can have as support for informing your healthcare centre and other contacts about what you think they need to know about you.

A simple travel itinerary to prevent and reduce worries during your cancer journey. Please, use prior to preparation of your individual care plan. The following areas are included in the travel itinerary.

• Direction: What’s important to you?
• Challenges: What difficulties do you encounter?
• Steps: What can help and who can help?
• Review: What steps have I taken and where have they taken me?

This form is designed to make it easy for you to gather all important contacts in one place. Here you can gather phones numbers of, for example, your contact nurse, your rehab staff, your administrator at the health insurance authority as well as patient- and relative associations.

You can choose to fill out the list online or print it out and fill it in by hand, or you can choose to do both.

The form is also available in a version for you as a relative.

This form is designed to make it easy for you to gather all important contacts in one place. Here you can gather phones numbers of, for example, your healthcare centre, occupational healthcare, your children’s school healthcare as well as patient- and relative associations.

You can choose to fill out the list online or print it out and fill it in by hand, or you can choose to do both.

The form is also available in a version for you as a patient.