Fran Boyle
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110 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2016
last heard Jun 2018
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It's spreading.
Oh well I think uh it's something that has implications for the um economics of actually making chemotherapy manageable.
So each unit needs to work out a way to do that that makes sure other patients are not disadvantaged and waiting lists aren't pushed out for other kinds of cancer.
But I think
most places in the northern hemisphere it is considered to be a standard of care.
The US has been of course slow to discover it but they're about to find out and it will become normal.
I think that's right, Norman.
At the first pass people going through treatment, the biggest concern is survival and making sure that their treatment is accomplished on time and you know, they get through that.
But many women then say, Well I'm
thought it was okay to have no libido when I was having chemotherapy or to have vaginal dryness and when I first started my tablets, but you know what?
It's six months on and that's still an issue for me.
And it's something that oncologists are probably not the best or perhaps even surgeons at picking up in their consultations because again, follow-up consultations tend to focus on recurrence risk.
Well, we are learning ways to help women with these symptoms.
Libido is obviously a pretty complex concept that not
not just a physical thing but an emotional thing as well.
But some of the vaginal symptoms do lend themselves to treatment.
And also making sure that women are referred for the right kind of assessment and help with their partners is a really important thing to pick up on.
I think that having that annual mammogram, uh women regularly say while they're lying they're having it w the standing there, it's like being back at the beginning all over again and it's now recognised that it that is a form of post traumatic stress disorder and needs to be treated psychologically in a similar way.
So recent studies in Australia have shown that uh a psychological intervention based on PTSD interventions is
helpful for several kinds of cancer patients with what's called fear of recurrence and I would love to see that rolled out in a more systematic way.
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