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Printable patient handouts

Short fact sheets on one topic each, as PDFs you can download, print and hand out. Each one is the text of our article on that topic, in plain language, with its “when to get help” advice, its source and the date it was last updated. There are 352 handouts on 36 topics in 20 languages.

For hospitals and clinics

  • These handouts are free. Print, copy and share them as many times as you like.
  • You do not need to ask permission.
  • Please share them unchanged and do not alter the medical content.
  • Please cite CancerExplained.org as the source.
  • They are educational information, not medical advice. The printed date is the date the article was last updated, not the date a clinician reviewed it. Each handout says it was prepared with AI assistance and has not been reviewed by a named medical reviewer unless one is listed. The web address on each handout leads to the current version.
  • Translations are machine-translated from our English articles. The English version is the one we check against the source. Translations that fail our automated checks are not published and have no handout.

Handouts by topic

Pick a language to see only its handouts, or download any language from the list. Letter-size PDF, black and white friendly.

36 topics

Looking for longer reads? Our downloadable guides gather several articles on one moment, such as being just diagnosed, into one PDF.