Including Palliative Care as Part of Your Treatment
By Hollye Harrington Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW on August 15th, 2012 Categories: Treatment & Side EffectsRight after my FBC diagnosis (f-bomb breast cancer for new readers), my husband and I had an information gathering week. After a series of diagnostic tests to determine the extent of the disease, we had a series of meetings to interview doctors to determine who would become a part of my/our health care team.
One big misnomer in our culture is that doctors (solely) …
