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- • Nutritionists evaluate any deficiencies in your diet and prepare individualized plans that take your condition
- into account and make sure you get enough nutrients.
- • Physical therapists can make sure you maintain proper muscle tone and adapt to any changes to your body
- that result from treatment.
- • Occupational therapists help teach activities of daily living—how to eat,
- swallow and use your body efficiently.
- • Enterostomal therapists specialize in the care of ostomies.
- • Respiratory therapists help you keep your lungs and breathing passages clear.
- • Speech therapists work with people who have lost their voice box (larynx) and have to
- learn to speak in a new way.
- • Psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, psychotherapists and other emotional counselors such as
- clergy and social workers help you through depression, fear or other emotional problems you may have because
- of your cancer or its treatment.
- • Dentists evaluate the state of your mouth before treatment and help you deal with treatment side
- effects such as mouth sores.
- • Cosmeticians ensure proper skin care during treatment and help you cope with physical changes.
- • Laboratory technologists perform specialized blood tests.
- • Pharmacists prepare complicated medications and ensure correct dosages.
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