Mary has a brain tumour - CLIC Sargent

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What these words meanYou may hear lots of strange new words when you’re in hospital. Below weexplain what some of them mean. If you’re unsure about any others, just askyour doctor or nurse.ANAESTHETISTThis is a doctor who gives you a medicine that makes you really sleepy, sothat you fall asleep. You have an anaesthetic before an operation, so you cansleep right through it without feeling anything. Afterwards the doctors willwake you up.BLOOD TESTWhen a tiny sample of your blood is looked at to see how many red cells, whitecells and platelets you have (this is called a full blood count or FBC).BLOOD/PLATELET TRANSFUSIONWhen your blood count is low you may need extra blood to help you feel better.CANCERWhen the cells in your body become abnormal (bad) and continue to growon their own, out of control.32
What these words meanCHEMOTHERAPYA mixture of different medicines which treat cancer.HICKMAN LINEA long plastic tube inserted into one of the big veins (blood vessels) in yourbody, usually your neck. The end comes out through a small hole in the skinon your chest. This is inserted under general anaesthetic.NEUROSURGEONA doctor who specialises in operations on the <strong>brain</strong>.OPERATIONWhere you have some medicine called anaesthetic to make you go to sleepfor a while, then the doctors can have a look at your body without hurting you.PORTACATHA device, or bobble, is inserted under the skin near the armpit under generalanaesthetic and a very thin tube (the line) then runs under the skin to the mainvein in the neck. If treatment is given or blood taken, ‘magic cream’ is put onto the skin covering the bobble beforehand – to make it go numb so it will nothurt so much when the needle goes in.33
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