A teaching booklet for patients receiving high dose rate brachytherapy
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A teaching booklet for patients receiving high dose rate brachytherapy
Oncol Nurs Forum.
1991 Sep-Oct.
Abstract
A teaching booklet developed for patients with lung cancer who were about to receive high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy is described and presented. The booklet was developed by nurses assigned to a radiation oncology center and details the procedure using text and photographs.
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