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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

No One is More Interested in Curing Your Cancer Than You « Dr. Robert A. Nagourney – Rational Therapeutics – Blog



No One is More Interested in Curing Your Cancer Than You « Dr. Robert A. Nagourney – Rational Therapeutics – Blog

No One is More Interested in Curing Your Cancer Than You

A diagnosis of cancer thrusts a, heretofore, healthy individual into the strange and unfamiliar territory of medical oncology. Many of my patients describe this transition as “entering the cancer bubble.” Suddenly, you are on the inside and everyone on the outside is talking at you about what to do, where to go, whom to see, and what treatments to receive.
From the inside of the bubble however, all of this has a hollow ring as you ponder many options, few good and some, positively frightening. Unfortunately, few patients have the time to complete a MD, or PhD, between diagnosis and the initiation of treatment. Lacking the requisite expertise, they turn to the “authorities” for advice.