Afterward, he earnestly thanked his doctor, the nurse practitioner, the receptionist and just about any other staff member he could find in the radiation oncology department at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Facer remembers how good it felt to ring the brass bell in the medical oncology department at the Siteman Center in West County when she finished six months of chemotherapy. Facer, who has an aggressive form of breast cancer called HER3, was certain she’d get regularly scheduled bone scans, CT scans and blood tests after her treatments. Michael Naughton,a medical oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at Washington University, thinks a lot of the emotional coping that goes with a diagnosis is put on the back burner while patients are getting chemotherapy and radiation, because the treatments are so physically hard. read more
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