Abstract
A patient informed that a course of radiotherapy is needed will often react with fear and suspicion. Radiotherapy has unhappy connotations of radioactivity, nuclear power and even death ray guns! It causes radiation sickness, is dangerous, can burn and even cause cancer. Some will have had a friend or relative in the terminal stages of malignancy who has had radiotherapy, and the event may sometimes be recalled as a harbinger of death.
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Whipp, E. (1986). Coping with Radiation Therapy. In: Stoll, B.A. (eds) Coping with Cancer Stress. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4243-1_6
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