Radiation Therapy | What Are the Side Effects? | The Patient Story

When you or someone you love gets diagnosed with cancer, it is overwhelming for so many reasons. One of them is meeting a ton of medical team members in a short amount of time.

Hear straight from Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital's radiation oncologist Dr. Biehl about what to expect when you go in for radiation treatment. Here he answers one of the most popular questions from cancer patients and caregivers:

"What are the side effects of radiation therapy treatment?"

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Background:

The Patient Story turns in-depth interviews from recent cancer survivors into a FAQ format-story along with timelines to give newly diagnosed patients and caregivers a sense of what their lives may look like in the upcoming months. Hear straight from the people who've already been through it.

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A message from our founder:

My name is Stephanie.

In 2013, I found a story that touched my heart: a group of friends were fighting to raise awareness about bone marrow donations for a young woman who'd been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It had spread to her brain.

Nina was in dire need of a bone marrow transplant. She's of Asian descent, which narrowed her odds of finding a match (fewer people of the same race and ethnicity registered to donate).

The good news: she found a donor! The wife and mother of two is living happily. I couldn't be happier.
The "odd" news: I was diagnosed with the same cancer, same sub-type just three years later.

That motivated me to create The Patient Story: a company to help cancer patients and caregivers by giving them real answers from real people - people who've actually been through the experience.

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what about side-effects for the prostate? i had 25 treatments