Self Advocacy-Talk to Your Doctors and Others Who've Been There
This article, The Side Effect Roulette of Cancer Treatment discusses the benefits of frank talk with your care team about side effects. Many people don't realize their oncology team can mitigate many side effects and symptoms. We've come a long way from the days when cancer treatment didn't include pain management let alone side effect symptom managment.
I joined GRACE as a caregiver for my husband who had a Pancoast tumor, NSCLC stage III in 2009. He had curative chemo/rads then it was believed he had a recurrence in the spine/oligometastasis that was radiated. He's 10 years out from treatment.