📢Healthcare professionals: if you’re supporting people living with #PelvicRadiationDisease, please consider signposting them to our Out and About Toolkit. Practical tips and tools to help people feel more confident leaving home.
👉 prda.org.uk/out-and-about-toolkit/

#SupportiveOncology

Season’s greetings from all of us at PRDA.

Thank you for being part of our community, and for everything you bring to it. Wishing you comfort, kindness, and joy this season and into the New Year.

Grateful to the many healthcare professionals helping improve recognition of #PelvicRadiationDisease. Using the term PRD helps validate patients’ experiences and supports better long-term care.

👉Take the pledge: prda.org.uk/the-pelvic-radiation-disease-pledge/

#PRDPledge #CancerCare

Grateful to the many healthcare professionals helping improve recognition of #PelvicRadiationDisease. Using the term PRD helps validate patients’ experiences and supports better long-term care.

👉Take the pledge: prda.org.uk/the-pelvic-radiation-disease-pledge/

#PRDPledge #CancerCare

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Jan Bornschein to our Medical Advisory Panel. His expertise in gastrointestinal oncology and the effects of pelvic radiotherapy strengthens our evidence-based guidance for healthcare professionals managing PRD.

https://ow.ly/o2Aj50Xregl

#PelvicRadiationDisease

Life after cancer can bring long-term challenges. Ellie’s story highlights the importance of joined-up, compassionate care for those living with late effects of pelvic radiotherapy.

👉 https://www.prda.org.uk/ellies-story/

#PelvicRadiationDisease #Oncology #EveryStoryEveryVoice

New or ongoing symptoms 3 months or more after pelvic radiotherapy could be #PelvicRadiationDisease

Symptoms can start years or even decades after radiotherapy and are often under-recognised. Find more information on our website:

prda.org.uk/what-is-pelvic-radiation-disease-prd/

It’s race day!🏃🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Our amazing supporters are taking on the Royal Parks Half Marathon today🌳
Let’s cheer them on and help raise vital funds for people living with #PelvicRadiationDisease

Show your support💙 donate now:
prda.org.uk/countdown-to-the-royal-parks-half-marathon/

Pelvic Radiation Disease can have a lasting impact on quality of life long after cancer treatment ends.

Find out more and use our PRD Best Practice Pathway to improve care:
www.prda.org.uk/what-is-pelvic-radiation-disease-prd/

#PelvicRadiationDisease #HealthcareProfessionals #BestPractice

#Lymphoedema can be a late effect of pelvic #radiotherapy. Awareness and early management is vital.

Learn about symptoms, risk reduction, and read Corinne’s experience of living with lymphoedema & #PelvicRadiationDisease.

🔗 www.prda.org.uk/lymphoedema-...

#WorldLymphoedemaDay

People experiencing symptoms that start or continue three months or more, after the end of their pelvic radiotherapy, may have #PelvicRadiationDisease.

Information and support is available from the Pelvic Radiation Disease Association:

prda.org.uk/support/

#LivingWithAndBeyondCancer

#PelvicRadiationDisease is a long-term side effect or 'late' effect of pelvic radiotherapy.

Effecting an estimated 100,000 people in the UK, complex symptoms can appear years or even decades after treatment.