EXPRESSIONS USED TO DESCRIBE AIMS OF TREATMENT – KNOW THE AIM OF YOUR TREATMENT
Many patients also suffer unnecessarily because they don’t know the actual aim of their treatment. It is a sad but true fact that many patients have palliative anti-cancer treatments believing they may be cured by them. Many doctors do not make the aim of treatment clear to their patients. Quite often, doctors recommend very extensive surgery or potent chemotherapy with a lot of side effects to people with cancers that cannot be cured. Most of these people wrongly take it for granted that such severe treatments would only be recommended if they had a chance of curing them. Make sure you know exactly what can be achieved by any proposed treatment. You may have to ask directly, and more than once, to get a straight answer.
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