RIT and confidence
I have long belileved that a physician's most important medicine is reassurance. Reassurance gives the patient a sense of confidence.
When I learned of the brilliant logic of radioimmunotherapy---its specificity and its punch---I had full confidence upon entering the clinical trial in which I received Zevalin as first-line therapy for my Stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. That sense of confidence made the frequent long-distance trips to the treatment facility, the innumerable blood tests and the imaging studies so much easier to tolerate.
Further, my confidence was contagious. It was remarkable how my attitude influenced that of my dear family members.
Mort