A Wiki for Understanding Your Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Coping With Treatment
Questions for Your Treatment Team
These sample questions can act as a guide as to the type of questions you can ask your Treatment Team / Specialists BEFORE they take action.
The Three Different Interview Intervals
After initial Diagnosis & before Surgery we asked these questions
of the Specialist / Surgeon
After Surgery, Staging Defined, prior to Genomic Testing. Interviewing your Oncologist(s)
Prior to Systemic Treatment. Discussion w/ Oncologist determining optimum treatment regimen
After Initial Diagnosis & Before Surgery
Questions to Ask your GP or Organ Specialist:
1. What disease do you suspect this to be? Please explain.
2. Can you assess the extent of this disease?
3. What do you recommend as the next step in my treatment?
4. Will you be consulting with an oncologist about my case prior to my surgery?
5. Will there be a need for adjuvant treatment either before or after my surgery?
5. What role will you play going forward in my care?
Questions to Ask your Surgeon:
1. What is the extent of your expertise in this particular type of disease and this specific surgical procedure?
2. Please explain what this surgery will entail.
3. How extensive will this surgery be?
4. We plan to have genomic testing conducted so please harvest a sufficient amount of tumor tissue to accommodate such additional testing.
5. Will you also be harvesting lymph nodes while you are conducting my surgery?
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After Surgery, Staging Discussion
Questions for Surgeon Post Surgery:
1. XXWhat disease do you suspect this to be? Please explain.
2. XXCan you assess the extent of this disease?
3. XXWhat do you recommend as the next step in my treatment?
4. XXWill you be consulting with an oncologist about my case prior to my surgery?
5. XXWill there be a need for adjuvant treatment either before or after my surgery?
5. XXWhat role will you play going forward in my care?
????Interviewing Oncologists & Oncologist Questions: OR SEPARATE SECTION?
1. xxWhat is the extent of your expertise in this particular type of disease and this specific surgical procedure?
2. xxPlease explain what this surgery will entail.
3. xxHow extensive will this surgery be?
4. xxWe plan to have genomic testing conducted so please harvest a sufficient amount of tumor tissue to accommodate such additional testing.
5. xxWill you also be harvesting lymph nodes while you are conducting my surgery?
Before Treatment
work in progress...
