When cancer returns or treatment changes
For a recurrence, progression or a conversation about changing treatment.
Read the guidePatient and family guides
Clearer conversations. Care that fits your life.
Detailed guides and practical tools for decisions, family conversations and changing care needs. Start with the situation that matters to you today.
Five guides for important moments
You do not have to read everything or make every decision today. Each guide has section links, practical questions and optional worksheets.
Talking to children and teenagers
For parents and families helping a child understand an adult’s cancer.
Read the guide
Cancer treatment in later life
For care that considers health, independence and practical support.
Read the guide
Checking cancer claims
For checking a proposed cure, supplement or treatment before acting.
Read the guide
Planning care towards the end of life
For preparing gently when time may be short, including care in India.
Read the guideFill in on this device, or use a printed copy
Choose one useful worksheet. If you save answers on this device, they stay in this browser, separately from Caregiver toolkit records. They are not sent to CTI or your team and are not monitored. No sign-up is needed.
Your next cancer-care conversation
Organise confirmed facts, uncertainties, questions and the next steps when cancer returns or treatment may need to change.
Checking a cancer-treatment claim
Record the exact claim, check its evidence and disclose products to the treating team before spending money or changing care.
Care preferences and medical decisions
Discuss information wishes, supporters, representatives, CPR and other treatment separately, and record where verified medical or legal documents are kept.
Comparing treatment choices
Compare two clinically relevant options using the same questions, with the patient’s priorities alongside benefit, burdens and uncertainty.
Talking with children
Prepare honest, age-appropriate words, practical routines and support for children and teenagers when an adult has cancer.
Later-life cancer care
Bring everyday function, medicines, nutrition, communication and available support into a treatment conversation.
Your survivorship passport
Keep a verified treatment summary, an individual follow-up plan and the responsibilities of each team together after treatment.
Home comfort and contact plan
Agree realistic home support, out-of-hours help, prescribed symptom care and a backup plan with the treating team.
Practical support after a death
Prepare locally confirmed contacts and document questions, share practical tasks and identify support for the family.
Use the tools in a way that helps you
- Choose one useful page. Leave any question blank. Bring the page to a conversation rather than trying to solve everything alone.
- Check facts with the team. Medical details, estimates, follow-up tests, urgent numbers and formal orders need confirmation.
- Save on this device or keep a paper copy. “Fill in on this device” stores answers only when you choose Save. Back up important updates through My saved plans. Records have no routine expiry, but clearing browser data or private browsing can remove them. Use the matching family-plans backup to restore them; Caregiver toolkit backups remain separate.
- Using a downloaded PDF? Open it in a form-capable reader, save it, close it and reopen it to check your entries. PDF boxes can scroll: put long answers in your own labelled document and enter “See attached notes” in the box. Print that attachment as well. Check print preview. If your language does not display correctly, use a document that supports it or write by hand.
- Keep it private. Information you enter in these worksheets is not sent to Cancer Therapy India (CTI) or your care team. Saved browser records, downloaded backups and PDFs are not encrypted by this tool. Use a device lock, store completed copies securely and share only with people you choose. Obtain the patient’s permission or appropriate authority before recording their information. Deleting a browser record does not delete downloaded or shared copies.
Care preferences in India
The care-preferences worksheet supports discussions about next of kin, representatives, CPR, DNAR and escalation. It does not create a valid medical order, advance medical directive, consent form or representative appointment. The treating team must follow current Indian clinical and legal requirements separately.
A patient who can make their own decisions remains central. Being a relative or emergency contact does not automatically give unrestricted authority over medical decisions.
For day-to-day medicines, symptoms, appointments and shared-care records, use the caregiver toolkit. Existing saved toolkit records and backups are separate and remain available.
If someone is seriously unwell, seek urgent help. Do not wait to complete a worksheet or for a message to be read.