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- The Most Important Questions You Can Ask
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- • What is the primary site or source of my cancer?
- • What is the stage and what organs are involved?
- • What tests are necessary to find this out? Are they uncomfortable?
- • Is there a choice between surgery and radiation? Should you use both? In which order?
- • Is there a role for chemotherapy? When?
- • What kind of functional disability might I have? Will I have trouble eating, swallowing or speaking?
- • How will I look after the treatments? Will I have a cosmetic disability?
- • How much experience have the surgeon and radiation oncologist had with
- this type of tumor , and with what results?
- • What complications can I expect from treatment?
- • How long does it take to recover from the treatment?
- • How often will you examine me afterwards?
- • When will I know I am safe?
