Diagnosed with Cancer, Now What?: Top 3 Treatment Questions
Those diagnosed with cancer have grave concerns that typically revolve around quality of life and death. Is this treatment going to work? Will I be able to handle the side effects of my treatment? Will this treatment extend my life? Many patients often comply with the treatment the doctor recommends without asking some very important questions about the treatment itself. And rightly so, anyone diagnosed with cancer will tell you that they are emotionally tired, which means they don’t have much mental and physical energy to do anything but eat and sleep. As a cancer patient advocate I ask clients to write a list of questions they wanted to ask their doctor but never did. Most of these questions are around what a particular treatment does in the body, how it affects the body long term, and how long will the treatment
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