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Introduction
Modern diagnostic imaging, radiation therapy and surgery are regular ‘high-technology’ users in the hospital’s clinical and surgical departments. It has provided better healthcare for patients. This section provides a patient description for two separate courses of cancer treatment that the website editor, Dr Lyn Oliver, has experienced and surviving:
- Recent surgical and radiotherapy treatment for a plasmacytoma tumour detected in the neck vetebra (cervical 6); and
- Robotic surgery for prostate cancer in 2011.
Dr Oliver spent more than 50 years working as a medical physicist and caring for cancer patients. His stories provide a rare patient viewpoint. It provides a combination of his scientific knowledge and personal experience receiving treatment.
It’s hoped that these personal experiences will help others to learn about cancer treatments. There are many survivors who are most certainly thankful for modern cancer treatment methods.
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The cancer patient’s pathway through radiation therapy.
A cancer patient’s insight: Spinal neck surgery
A cancer patient’s insight: Spinal neck radiation therapy
Robotic surgery for prostate cancer
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The cancer patient’s pathway for external beam radiation therapy
The cancer patient’s pathway
for external beam radiation therapy
Radiation therapy (or more recently called Radiation Oncology) is a medical specialty providing cancer patients external beam radiation therapy. However, there are some non-malignant disorders that radiotherapy also plays a valuable role in successfully treating too…….
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A cancer patient’s insight: spinal neck surgery
Spinal neck surgery
to remove cancer
Having spent over 50 years of work providing healthcare for cancer patients, I suddenly found myself on the receiving end. Unexpected cancer had thrust me into emergency surgery. It required some immediate skilled surgical and nurse expertise to treat and take me back on the road to recovery.
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A cancer patient’s insight: Spinal neck radiation therapy
Spinal neck radiation therapy
I was booked to start radiation therapy 6 weeks after surgery. The Orthopeadic Surgeon wanted to check that I was free of infection before referring me on to the radiation oncologist.
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Robotic Surgery for Prostate Cancer
Robotic Surgery for Prostate Cancer
This article describes my personal experience as a prostate cancer patient. My choice for this mode of treatment came from the advice of my medical colleagues and other information I procured during the process. Deciding which treatment method I should choose, was not easy.
Manual surgical methods for prostate cancer have progressed from open surgery to what is known as ‘key-hole surgery’. Your surgeon will explain and advise you about the differences between the options of manual, key-hole surgery and robotic surgery……….
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The cancer patient’s pathway through radiation therapy.
A cancer patient’s insight: Spinal neck surgery
A cancer patient’s insight: Spinal neck radiation therapy
Robotic surgery for prostate cancer
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