When you're faced with a new cancer diagnosis, it's natural to want to start treatment as soon as possible. But before you dive in, it's also important to make an informed choice about your treatment plan. That's why you need to know the ins and outs of a common term used in oncology: "palliative chemotherapy." Let’s unravel this term so that you know what questions to ask your oncologist if you're being offered palliative chemotherapy.
If you got diagnosed with a serious illness, do you think your doctor would be more honest about your future if YOU were a doctor too? Depending on how cynical you are, the answer may surprise you!
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Telling your doctors to “Do everything” means DO EVERYTHING, right? Well… maybe not!
Despite years of medical training, many doctors are never taught how to break bad news in a patient-centered way. As a result, you may run into doctors who try to break bad news in other... creative ways. Here is one of those ways and what to do about it if it happens to you.