If you are feeling unwell between your treatment appointments or after you finish treatment, you can contact the Oncology and Haematology Triage helpline.
Please contact us straight away if you have any of the following symptoms:
- Feeling very hot or feeling very cold
- A temperature of below 36 or above 37.5
- Shivering attacks or flu-like symptoms
- Breathing problems, persistent cough, coughing up green or yellow spit or blood
- Pain on passing urine, frequency of urine or blood in your urine.
- Feeling or being sick
- Diarrhoea for more than 24 hours or bleeding from your back passage or in your stools
- Sore mouth or sore throat preventing you from eating or drinking
- Unexplained rash, new bruising or purple spots on your skin
- Pain not controlled by medication
- Bleeding from your gums or nose, blood blisters or bleeding that does not stop with general first aid
- If you have a central line (“PICC”, “Hickman” or “Port a cath”) and the area around it becomes red, swollen or painful
- Any other symptoms which cause you concern
How to contact us
Laurel House Oncology and Haematology 24 Hour Triage Helpline
- Telephone: 077 1198 9914
If your situation is a medical emergency, please contact 999.
If you had your chemotherapy treatment in Belfast, please call the numbers below for their 24 hour helplines:
Belfast Oncology Helpline
- Telephone: 028 9026 3805
Belfast Haematology Helpline
- Telephone: 028 9026 3984