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welcome back to our second segment on Innovations in surgery for head and neck cancer patients this is part of a series looking at Innovations in treatment and Care to improve survival but equally important quality of life to reduce side effects you may have already heard our interview with ENT surgeon dr. Richard Gallaher and he's talked about the robot the trans are all robotic surgery well I'm now meeting another member of a multidisciplinary team working with head and neck cancer patients and she has worked as a nurse coordinator so let's meet her now Susie tell us what job you're doing right now can you introduce yourself and tell us your current job and then your history, particularly with head and neck my name is Susie Flynn...

Awesome and it's my pleasure to welcome you to this video on Innovations in radiation therapy for head and neck cancer patients it's one of a series of videos all about Innovations to improve quality of life and to improve survival and these videos are hosted by Saint Vincent's Hospital Sydney and the Kinghorn Cancer Center as I said my name is Julie and seven years ago I was treated for stage 4 oropharyngeal and that's cancer in my tonsils tongue and throat and that's an example of a head and neck cancer and I'm here today I was treated with radiation and chemo our purpose is to raise awareness about head and neck cancer and also to give you high-quality evidence-based information and I'd like to acknowledge that we're Broadcasting...

Awesome and it's my pleasure to welcome you to this video on Innovations in radiation therapy for head and neck cancer patients and it's one of a series of videos all about Innovations to improve quality of life and to improve survival and these videos are hosted by Saint Vincent's Hospital Sydney and the Kinghorn Cancer Center as I said my name is Julie and seven years ago I was treated for stage 4 oropharyngeal and that's a cancer in my tonsils tongue and throat and that's an example of a head and neck cancer and and I'm here today I was treated with radiation and chemo our purpose is to raise awareness about head and neck cancer and also to give you high quality evidence-based information and I'd like to acknowledge that we're Broadcasting sting to you today on Aboriginal land the land of the gadigal people of the eora nation and to pay my respects to Elders past and present and to emerging leaders and I want to acknowledge that Aboriginal people and some Torres Strait Islander a disproportionately affected by the head and neck cancers that we're talking about in this video so our focus is radiation therapy and I've got a radiation oncologist a dietitian and a speech pathologist and we'll tell you about what's the good news about what's improving our survival and lessening the side effects and also what's on the horizon hi I'm hands Eve from Camden South or soon 2011 and 2013 I had surgeries and extensive radiations to my track to all the surgeons oncologists and nurses to you I'm forever grateful and thank you for saving my life and making...

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Showing them one of these things and then there are some very useful videos like on the targeting cancer website that you've done Julie to help educate patients so they aren't surprised when they turn up on day one what this is about and in a way what you're saying is that that mask which is made for each individual we all have our own personal mask is part of the price we pay for much more precise treatment and fewer side effects it's just part of what we have to manage and that you'll help us man that that's right and I think you know about the work being done by groups like image X you know that's the way we going we know already we've breast cancer patients we can now treat them without the tattoos they used to need to have to make sure they are in the right position but it is a very significant...

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Advise if you've got those very dark feelings what should people do spit out expose go and ask for hell there's heaps of information on the website go to your doctor go to your GP you know speaker or even call cancer Council 13 1120 that's right you know and they will ask you question their stories were very well trained and will refer you to the condition that you know you can get the thank you so much Theresa and I come now to our clinical nurse consultant Michelle can you introduce yourself and tell us who you are and what you do hi Julie I'm Michelle I work at Liverpool Hospital in the cancer Therapy Center and I'm obsessed with radiotherapy I am so on the clinical nurse consultant in radiotherapy so all things radiotherapy on your woman and we're going to have a whole video in this series which is looking at Innovations to help people who've experienced head and neck cancer a whole program that's just on radiation therapy but today we're focusing on managing distress and I think I'd like to hear from you about the pre treatment Clinic you have and what do you do there that particular goes to the question of finding out if someone might need emotional support okay so we have a clinic at my place at Liverpool and it's called the head and neck pre treatment Clinic no doctors allowed so a patient has to meet a certain criteria and our care coordinators hour or hour...

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