What Prostate Cancer Advisers Do
Advisers are called on to do a number of things
for members, including:
- Respond to concerns over a specific treatment.
- Receive and explaining medical reports from patients.
- Contact physicians to discuss the merits of a certain diagnostic
test.
- Locate a specific research paper.
- Obtain information on a particular drug.
- Research a particular treatment.
- Identify the best doctors for performing a specific treatment.
- Call a special physician on behalf of a patient.
- Discuss the side effects of a specific treatment.
- Discuss a particular clinical trial.
- Inquire about how to take a particular complementary treatment.
- Advise patients as to a course of study in order to decide on a viable
treatment.
- Encourage patients to do their homework related to optional treatments.
- Share specific information with a patient that he can then shared
with his physician.
- Obtain information about new conventional and complementary treatment.
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