The results suggest a reduction in the severity of some symptoms experienced while receiving chemotherapy and a shift from concerns about physical to psychosocial issues.

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Patients use audiotapes of their cancer consultation and individualized letters to review the information given and communicate information to relatives and friends. They prefer audiotapes to letters. Clinicians should consider installing audiotape-recording facilities that could be used to tape new-patient consultations.

Women more than fifty-five years of age who are managed with removal of a thigh sarcoma combined with radiation therapy have a higher risk of pathologic fracture. The frequency of pathologic fractures associated with higher doses (60 or 66 Gy) of radiation is significantly higher than that associated with lower doses (50 Gy).