You may need different doctors and nurses to help with different
parts of your breast cancer care. They can help you take care of
yourself, avoid other complications, and keep up your quality of
life. You may need pain control, physical therapy, mental health
services, and care that treats other health problems. Our health
care system must treat the whole person, not just a person's
disease. What You Can Do: "Comprehensive" means covering all the
bases. Your doctors and nurses should be able to create a plan
with you that may include things like: Remember that breast
cancer care plans are not simple. They often need to be changed
along the way. Ask your doctors to give you a list of all the
treatments you will get. Ask for a timeline that tells when and
for about how long you will get the treatments. What if you
can't get the timeline in writing? Be sure to take notes about
all the major parts of your care (for example, surgery,
chemotherapy, and radiation, etc.). Ask your doctors if you can
tape-record your