Difficulty in adherence to brachytherapy treatment of a patient at cacon, thus requiring multidisciplinary action to actively search for the realization of brachytherapy treatment. Case report
Abstract
Case presentation: With the increase in the number of diagnoses of gynecological cancer and the decrease in the age group of patients at Cacon, the difficulty of accepting the disease together with its side effects arising from the treatments, makes the lack of assiduity in the treatment and especially in the brachytherapy stage. Case Report: I.L.S, 42 years old, diagnosed with uterine cancer EC IIA2, has a fifteen-year-old daughter, reports having financial problems, and for this reason, currently lives with her sister. The sister has psychiatric problems and frequently needs to be hospitalized, the brother also has a history of psychiatric treatment, and the two brothers are the only family support during his treatment. On the first day of treatment, the patient comes to the radiotherapy sector one hour late and is accompanied by her underage daughter. Based on the institutional norm, which requires the presence of an adult companion, her brachytherapy session was rescheduled. In the next session, the patient came to the sector accompanied by her brother and realized her first application of brachytherapy. In the following sessions, the patient did not come and did not explain her foul.
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