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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Vwa Stoff I nter
“Make today count.” That’s the cornerstone around which Lee Nettles built his counseling during a year of working with terminal cancer patients at the Medical College of Virginia.
Now director of the Rappahannock Mental Health Clinic, Nettles helped for a year in a pilot program at MCV funded by the National Cancer Institute. The program used an interdisciplinary approach to treating the whole patient. Nettles said. Surgeon, physical therapist, occupational therapist, social worker, mental health counselor—all labored together to help the patient adjust to having cancer.
Cancer is the verdict that makes the world tremble. It’s not this country’s number one killer. Heart disease retains that dubious crown. But most of us don’t have nightmares about heart disease. Cancer stalks our nightmares.
Why? Why is it that cancer strikes us with overwhelming fear when our chances of dying from a heart attack are statistically so much greater?
“People tend to lump all types of cancer together,” Nettles said. “It’s essential to realize that medical science does have a cure for some types of cancer if they’re caught in time.
“The general public has a mind set—that there’s no cure, no treatment, that all the doctors can do is sew you up and then you die. That just isn't the case any more. Depending on the primary site and stage at which cancer is discovered, the prognosis can be very good.”
Even the types of cancer which for decades have refused to surrender to the determined advances of research have begun to yield.
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