What to ask your doctor about advanced lung cancer treatment
This page contains questions for your doctor about treatment for advanced lung cancer.
- Is my breathlessness likely to be caused by a blocked airway?
- Can I have laser treatment as an outpatient?
- What are the side effects of laser treatment?
- What will happen if the cancer grows back again?
- Can I have a stent put in as an outpatient?
- Will I be able to feel the stent?
- Now my cancer has come back, which treatment do you recommend for me?
- What will the treatment do for me?
- Would radiofrequency ablation or photodynamic therapy reduce my breathlessness?
- What are the side effects likely to be?
- Are there any experimental treatments or trials you would recommend for me?
- Are there any trials for lung cancer going on at this hospital?
- Is there a counsellor here I could talk things through with?
- What will happen if I decide not to have treatment?
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