LINAC LEGO Models Patient Education Julie McCrossin 2023

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In 2013, Julie McCrossin was successfully treated with 33 sessions of radiation therapy and weekly chemotherapy for Stage Four oropharyngeal cancer caused by HPV.
Every cancer patient and their family should have the opportunity to see a model Radiation Therapy machine or LINAC before the first treatment with radiation therapy.
If you can’t read, or you can’t speak the language, or you are too shocked by your cancer diagnosis to absorb information - seeing a model, with a little model patient on it, means you can see what the treatment will involve.
To see is to understand.
In this 12 minute video, Julie shows examples of Model LINACS from all over the world and she explains what her treatment involved & how the team saved her life.
Thank you to Varian for the opportunity to give this presentation to an on-line audience of over 430 people globally.

[@victorekpo8918]

Thank you for sharing. This is a video we can share with our patients before treatment here in Africa. Anxiety is a real problem that needs to be solved.

[@tadessetvproductions5847]

excellent video - they also need music or podcasts to be available to take the patient's mind off the process

[@rayf9194]

I'm nearly two years post radiation, I didn't have chemo but I did have throat surgery and a neck dissection to remove 29 lymph nodes. I never experienced mask anxiety during radiation but I did when I had the mask fitment, probably fear of the unknown. I think the model concept or even an initial tour of the radiation facility would be beneficial for new throat cancer patients.

[@fay791]

great you don’t have so much side effects .you look great take care ❤