“We always assume as practitioners that chemotherapy is the hardest bit and radiotherapy is a breeze – the light is at the end of the tunnel,” says Prof Heidi Probst. “But actually what patients were saying to us was the opposite: that it’s really difficult. They’ve been through so much by the time they get there.”
Probst, a researcher and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University who specialises in improving delivery of radiotherapy for breast cancer and the patient experience, is talking about the crucial insights she gained from co-design workshops with past patients as she led a project to increase accuracy and dignity in radiotherapy.
