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"With any other clinical or medical error, patients are informed," he points out."Why not this? It's just unacceptable.", the independent agency tasked by the US Congress with ensuring"the safe use of radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes while protecting people and the environment."
"We have to know whether the treatment is still working, so it's critically important for these scans to be accurate," she said. "Sure enough, there was an infiltration on the x-ray," she said, describing the effect as"a big blob" of radioactive material in her arm."No warm compresses, no massage, nothing," Kohl said."I'm a fierce advocate, and even I sort of cowered. I didn't want to do anything to jeopardize my relationship with my doctors or my treatment."She still experiences a"soreness, an achiness" in the part of her arm where the extravasation happened.
Nonterminal patients, and particularly young patients who are likely to live for many years after cancer treatment, need to monitor for the long-term effects of extravasations, and they can't do that if they don't know that such an event has occurred, she said.
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