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Bravo
9 years agoMember
Radiotherapy details
i guess I could wait until I see the radiotherapy doctor to ask this question but, do the radiation rays go right through you or do they stop partway in ie at the site of the cancer? So if the cancer ...
viking1
8 years agoMember
@Bravo I am really glad you are having a good follow through via medical personnel during your treatment. Mine started out that way with surgery as I only saw the one surgeon and his team. When 'passed over' to chemo oncology I have had a different registrar for most meetings and only 2 appointments with an actual DR. I am a public patient in a teaching hospital so I guess this can be par for the course. But I get a bit irked having to look up drug names and tests I have had in my journal (thank god I am a notetaker! and thank god for this marvellous little BCNA journal!) when a reg. asks me what drug I had for x, y and z because they can't seem to locate it in my file. I also do a fair bit of chasing up paperwork and making sure my chemo onc has it before my appointment. This involves dealing with happy and unhappy receptionists. I am always polite but I often wonder how people who can't advocate for themselves or are too bloody worn out to do this get along! I am having a whinge as feel a bit like I am being passed from pillor to post at the moment. I felt like saying to my reg. chemo onc last week "how the hell would I know what they infused me with when I had a temp of 39.9 and could barely see straight? Read the discharge summary! Oh, I forgot, you don't have it ... it's been sailing around the hospital waiting for me to track it down!" But of course I wouldn't. Oh to be a private patient!? I realise these are first world problems and in another country I'd be lucky to have a Dr or treatment.