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Beryl Woodcock was the first patient at Lakeridge Health Oshawa to hit a new gong placed in the radiation department to mark the end of treatment. Woodcock had just completed radiation treatment for her second case of breast cancer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Graeme McNaughton\/Active Senior’s Digest<\/p>\n

When Beryl Woodcock hit the gong outside of the radiation treatment room at Lakeridge Health in Oshawa, Ontario, she knew she had accomplished something great \u2013 she had beaten breast cancer. Again.<\/p>\n

And the biggest concern Woodcock had after completing her final treatment? It was a little itchy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I have creams for that,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I feel great. I feel very fortunate because a lot of people don\u2019t have any energy. They lose it through this (treatment).\u201d<\/p>\n

The energetic Woodcock, a former Toronto Argonauts cheerleader and a flight attendant, was diagnosed with breast cancer this past May, 13 years after beating it for the first time.<\/p>\n

After seeing her physician for some pains, she mentioned that she hadn\u2019t received her notice for her mammogram.<\/p>\n

Her doctor, knowing Woodcock had had breast cancer before, sent her on her way to get a mammogram, which was later followed by a CT scan and a biopsy. It was at that final stage that she knew the news wasn\u2019t going to be good.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I had to go for the biopsy, I knew it. You know how you get that feeling? That sixth sense that you know what\u2019s going on?\u201d she says, speaking of her May diagnosis. \u201cI walked into the doctor\u2019s office and he asked what I was thinking, and I said it was positive (for cancer). He said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten days after she had surgery, Woodcock was at the hospital receiving radiation treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use a high-energy radiation beam that\u2026treats cancer cells or a tumor, and that (treatment) is individually planned for each patient, and delivered by a machine called a linear accelerator. So it\u2019s a very focused beam of radiation to an area that is detailed by the\u2026radiation oncologist,\u201d Christine Black, Lakeridge\u2019s manager of radiation therapy, tells Active Senior\u2019s Digest.<\/p>\n

Woodcock\u2019s completion of treatment also afforded her the chance to be the first radiation patient at the Oshawa hospital to ring a new gong donated by the Lakeridge Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were purchased for the radiation therapy department so that our patients could celebrate the end of their treatment,\u201d Black says. \u201cWe heard some comments and inquiries from our patients that they wanted a way to celebrate (the end of) treatment, and in some cancer centres, they have bells that people ring at the end of treatment. Upstairs in our systemic therapy suite, there\u2019s a bell that patients ring when they finish their treatment there. So people were asking us for a way to celebrate the end of radiation treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hitting the gong was a nice way to cap off the end of months of radiation treatment following her second episode with cancer, Woodcock says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can hear that ringing in my head now, saying \u2018It\u2019s over, it\u2019s over.\u2019 It\u2019s like the final touch on something.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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