

Preparation for Laboratory tests: 10 steps
Dear patients, , when you go to a laboratory, remember few basic rules: 1️⃣ We should perform tests in the morning (between 7:00 and 10:00). Tests in dynamic should always be performed at the same time. But in an urgent case blood may be taken any time. 2️⃣ We should perform tests on an empty stomach: the state after 10-12 hours not eating meals. Refrain from drinking coffee, tea or chewing gum. Avoid sudden changes in diet! Only a small amount of non-carbonated water can be


Doctor - Patient Partnership: simple responsibilities of both sides
During communications with patients a doctor should: ✔️ Explain everything in understandable language (ex., using simple words), ✔️Maintain professional ethical boundaries, ✔️Respect the patient as a person, ✔️ Make clinical decisions in diagnosis and treatment, but NOT fulfill the patient's wishes. 🧓🏼 What the patient should do: ✔️Tell to the doctor a truth: - about health problems (symptoms), - about medications, those he / she uses, - about following doctor's recommendat


HOW TO GET ORAL CHEMOTHERAPY SAFELY?
Follow your prescription exactly. Take the right dose at the right time, Keep a diary of your dosage times and taking notes on any side...


Lung cancer screening
Lung cancer is a growing problem around all the world 🌏 and in Cambodia 🇰🇭. Lung cancer screening includes: 1) consultation with Medical oncologist, 2) low-dose CT-scan chest ℹ️ Who has to come for Lung cancer screening? These are people from risk groups: ♦️ smokers: tobacco, marijuana etc., ♦️ people between 50 and 80 y.o., who quit smoking in the past 15 years, ♦️ secondhand-smokers (ex., non-smoking wives of smokers), ♦️ people after exposure to chemicals (at work, livi

