Managing Distress And Recovery In Cancer Patients 2

23/08/2022 10 min

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Advise if you've got those very dark feelings what should people do spit out expose go and ask for hell there's heaps of information on the website go to your doctor go to your GP you know speaker or even call cancer Council 13 1120 that's right you know and they will ask you question their stories were very well trained and will refer you to the condition that you know you can get the thank you so much Theresa and I come now to our clinical nurse consultant Michelle can you introduce yourself and tell us who you are and what you do hi Julie I'm Michelle I work at Liverpool Hospital in the cancer Therapy Center and I'm obsessed with radiotherapy I am so on the clinical nurse consultant in radiotherapy so all things radiotherapy on your woman and we're going to have a whole video in this series which is looking at Innovations to help people who've experienced head and neck cancer a whole program that's just on radiation therapy but today we're focusing on managing distress and I think I'd like to hear from you about the pre treatment Clinic you have and what do you do there that particular goes to the question of finding out if someone might need emotional support okay so we have a clinic at my place at Liverpool and it's called the head and neck pre treatment Clinic no doctors allowed so a patient has to meet a certain criteria and our care coordinators hour or hour...