Booklets to help cancer patients make treatment decisions for
For cancer patients and their families better understand their treatment options before making a decision, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology seven leaflets Patient information, such as radiation therapy is used safely and deal effectively published explaining the different types of cancer. Five brochures coverage options radiotherapy for certain cancers, including breast, prostate, lung, head and neck and colon cancer.The therapy works and what patients can expect during the treatment, and a brochure explaining all health professionals working together to treat patients with radiotherapy. Each book contains information for patients and their families can use to talk to the cancer specialists when deciding on a course of treatment. They also
include information on support groups and clinical trials. The brochures are free for cancer patients and advocacy groups visiting astro / patient or by calling 1-800-962-7876.Although there are literally thousands of websites and brochures for patients who are about cancer, we believe that sections of radiotherapy often inaccurate or outdated. We considered it useful to publish our own material, covering all the exciting changes in our industry who are helping to treat cancer patients, said Louis Harrison, MD, Chairman of the ASTRO Communications Committee and a radiation oncologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
informed decision about the correct treatment for cancer and lifestyle. ASTRO is currently working on two additional brochures on brain tumors
and gynecologic cancer, which should be available in early 2005. ASTRO is the largest society of radiation oncology in the world, with more than 8,000 members who specialize in treating patients with radiation therapies.Educational opportunities and professional development, promoting research and disseminating research results and representing radiation oncology in a rapidly changing health socio-economic development.
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