You need chemotherapy to treat your cancer, but the last thing that you want is to develop another severe health problem. Chemotherapy medications are toxins that can cause serious health problems, such as cardiac toxicity. Before you start chemotherapy, you will review all of the…
You consented to radiation treatment after discussing the benefits and risks with your doctor. Together, you decided that radiation to treat your cancer was worth the possible health risks. What you could not have accounted for—and should not have had to account for—was what would…
Your loved one had cancer, but it wasn’t cancer that caused her death. You have reason to believe that she died because of a preventable chemotherapy overdose. In other words, it wasn’t your loved one’s medical condition that killed her, but instead, it was an…
For some people who need chemotherapy, an infusion pump is life-changing. When everything goes as planned, an infusion pump allows a person to receive chemotherapy at home and even go about regular daily activities while receiving the life-saving treatment. However, when something goes wrong, a…
You talked to your doctor about all of your cancer treatment options. Together, you decided on a course of chemotherapy, and you expected that the chemo would be administered as ordered by your oncologist. Unfortunately, that’s not what happened. Types of Chemotherapy Administration Errors Your…
For patients with cancer, a possible treatment is radiation therapy. To fight the cancer cells in your body, you receive high doses of radiation. Over time, high doses of radiation damage the DNA in your cancer cells and the cancer cells die. Your doctors made…