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Cancer treatment - still going ahead?
IHeartKingThistle · 23/03/2020 08:03
My sister has finished chemotherapy and had a mastectomy a couple of weeks ago (TNBC). She's due to start daily radiotherapy next month. I've not seen her as I'm still teaching and I daren't, though I'm desperate to.
Does anyone know, are people still going for radiotherapy? I don't think she's been told much yet. Terrified she won't be able to have the treatment she needs.
iVampire · 23/03/2020 08:10
Cancer treatment will continue, but the admin arrangements might alter (my clinic now lets only patients through the door now.
But it might take a few days to settle down - I am meant to have an appointment today, but as I need a prescription (and the promised assistance to the super-vulnerable is only just starting and won’t be ready at my hospital today) I have to go in, and will actually end up in more public areas if the hospital for longer than if they had not made the changes
IHeartKingThistle · 23/03/2020 08:17
@iVampire that's scary. Hope it all gets sorted out for you quickly. Thank you for replying.
barberousbarbara · 23/03/2020 08:24
I'm currently undergoing treatment for TNBC. At the moment it's going ahead as planned (I have another 3 cycles of chemo to go). I was talking to the nurses during my treatment on Friday and they said the consultants were looking at it on a case by case basis.
Readytogogogo · 23/03/2020 08:35
At our centre we are still doing breast radiotherapy. The schedule nationally has changed so that it will be over one week rather than three for most people - trials have shown this should be as effective.
iVampire · 23/03/2020 13:15
I’ve found someone who can pick up my prescription, so I think I can avoid going to the hospital, thank goodness!
The changes have come swiftly, and so I think people are still grappling with the best way to deal with managing the flow of people, what is truly necessary, and how to distance people most effectively.
Only now I have a plan do I realise quite how brittle I was feeling this morning.
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