Questions you might want to ask your doctors

Because the treatment plan for every patient will be different we cannot answer every question here. The best people to help you understand your treatment are your consultant and the specialist nurse. The pages linked from here suggest some questions you might want to ask.

You can download a file with all these questions on it which you can edit and add your own questions as well.  It is in Microsoft Word format and is also available as a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file and as an Acrobat (.pdf) file. The Acrobat file cannot be edited.

Asking about GIST

What will happen to me

Telling others

Understanding the tests

Discussing treatment

Surgery

Understanding Glivec

Follow-up and Monitoring

Download files: Microsoft Word  Rich text format  Acrobat