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You can prepare a Cancer Treatment Summary to help your primary care physician better understand the following care you need. This is a "laundry list" of information concerning your time as a cancer patient. You can ask your doctor at the end of treatment to provide you with much of the needed information.
The list should include:

• Date of diagnosis, site, and stage
• Dates and sites of any relapses
• Name, address, and phone number of the hospital(s) that you received care from
• Chemotherapy treatment summary (list of all the chemotherapy drugs taken, dosage, and how they were taken)
• Dates and sites of any surgeries
• If any radiation therapy was used (very rarely), list the dates, sites, dose per treatment, total dose, and types
• Any complications during treatment (especially those that may affect your future health)
• Blood product exposures and dates it occurred

Be sure to keep a copy of your Cancer Treatment Summary for yourself, but also give one to your current healthcare provider.