The Most Important Questions You Can Ask

• What is the primary site or source of my cancer?
• What is the stage and what organs are involved?
• What tests are necessary to find this out? Are they uncomfortable?
• Is there a choice between surgery and radiation? Should you use both? In which order?
• Is there a role for chemotherapy? When?
• What kind of functional disability might I have? Will I have trouble eating, swallowing or speaking?
• How will I look after the treatments? Will I have a cosmetic disability?
• How much experience have the surgeon and radiation oncologist had with
  this type of tumor , and with what results? 
• What complications can I expect from treatment?
• How long does it take to recover from the treatment?
• How often will you examine me afterwards?
• When will I know I am safe?