5 Questions Every Cancer Patient Should Ask Their Oncologist
Essential questions to ask your oncologist about diagnosis, treatment options, side effects, and prognosis. Get the information you need to make decisions.
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Cancer treatment options, explained
Treatment decisions get made quickly, often in a thirty-minute appointment, and usually before you have had time to read anything. These pages cover how the options are weighed, what each one involves, and what to ask while the plan is still being decided.
Other sections
- Cancer 101What the words on your diagnosis mean, how cancer is staged, and how clinical trials work. Written to be read on a hard day.
- DiagnosisPathology reports, staging, scans and molecular testing, explained in plain words. What the numbers describe, and what they do not.
- Living with treatmentSide effects, what is normal, what to report to your care team, and how to keep some of your life while you are in treatment.