When you first hear from your doctor that you have cancer, that’s a tremendous shock. When you arrive for your first treatment of ‘external beam megavoltage radiotherapy‘, that’s another shock.
The following travelogue and videos provides a brief description of your journey and staff that assist you during the steps through your treatment.
Treatment Travelogue
This travelogue takes you through your radiotherapy experience:
Your Treatment Pathway
It’s to help inform you before that visit.
Video Experiences
There are quite a few website video productions that describe the procedure for patients receiving megavoltage, external beam radiation therapy.
With permission of the video owners, betterhealthcaretechnology.org have chosen two Australian productions.
An Introduction to Radiation Therapy
(courtesy of Prince of Wales Hospital)
Targeting Cancer – The Video Experience
The RANZCR, Tripartite Committee, produced a wonderful video version of the patient’s pathway through radiotherapy.
Targeting Cancer https://www.targetingcancer.com.au
This video gives some insight into how physicists and engineers are involved with other clinical professionals providing the patient’s radiotherapy services.
