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Krystina Tack returns home to h .qp prostate victims
By Scan C. Morgan
Of The New Era
After developing a career as
a medical physicist with prostate
cancer research and clinical expe-
rience, a Sweet Home native has
returned home and is offering her
help free to men diagnosed with
prostate cancer and their families.
Krystina Tack. who has a
Ph.D. in medical physics, is start-
ing a prostate cancer support
group and hosted the first meeting
on Tuesday. The group is free and
open to the public. The first meet-
ing will be held from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. Thursday night and then on
the first Thursday of the month at
the Jim Riggs Community Center.
While in the Midwest. work-
ing at a large prostate cancer
treatment facility in Chicago, she
participated in a prostate cancer
support group, which helped many
men and their families, Tack said.
The group is intended to help
men who have been diagnosed with
prostate cancer and would like to
know their treatment options and
which questions to ask their doc-
tors. she said. It's also helpful for
those who have been treated and
have questions or experiences they
would like to share. The group is a
source of information about pros-
tate cancer from an experienced
professional.
Tack said she has already been
helping people in the Sweet Home
area. more than five who had the
disease and needed to be treated.
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"Basically, people would call
me and ask questions," she said.
"Patients being treated for prostate
cancer aren't given the same treat-
ment options. There is no law about
what treatments are available."
A law requires doctors to in-
form patients about all of their
treatment options for other types
of cancer, but not so with prostate
cancer. Tack said.
Typically, when a patient pres-
ents symptoms, it is to a urologist
not a specialist, Tack said. The
urologist is a surgeon, and the first
option is surgery. Some patients do
well with it. while others do not.
"People ask. 'Do I need my
prostate?'" Tack said. "qhe doctor
says, no. and they cut it out.'"
Later, the patient regrets it
and becomes depressed because of
complications, Tack said. Doctors
say that about 20 percent of pa-
tients have complications, but she
thinks that figure should be higher
with the most common non-skin
cancers.
Sometimes. she said. given
the age of a patient, the treatment
is worse than the disease.
"Patients just aren't given all
the options." she said. What she is
really doing is giving people ri]ore
to think about, information, what
to ask doctors.
Doctors lay out options and
provide information, she said.
Patients need to ask how doctors
know how their patients fare with
the treatment options they' re offer-
ing and how they know how well
their patients have done, whether
the doctors ask their patients.
Patients are purchasing some-
thing, a treatment, and they should
know everything they can about it.
she said.
"The town doctor used to
know all there was to know in
medicine." Tack said. Now there
is so much information that no one
can know all of it, and specialists
are important to ensure a patient
knows all of his options.
"If anyone's got a question,
show up," she said. It's not like
Alcoholics Anonymous. She will
give talks and provide information.
No one needs to speak up. "I want
people to show up and feel like
they don't have to say a word and
can leave without saying a word."
The median age of prostate
cancer victims is 72. Tack said. It
typically strikes after 50, although
it can show up in men in their 30s.
Tack is a 1997 graduate of
Sweet Home High School. She
attended Linn-Benton Commu-
nity College and graduated from
Oregon State University with a
degree in nuclear medicine. Af-
ter working at Samaritan Lebanon
Community Hospital. she received
an assistantship at OSU and earned
her master's degree in radiation
health physics in 2006.
She completed an internship
in Texas in 2010 and earned her
doctorate in medical physics on
a fellowship at the Universit€ of
Texas Health Science Center. Her
research was in prostate cancer
therapy, specifically brach therapy.
She went to work as a thera-
peutic physicist in Chicago. She
had worked with radiation oncolo-
gist Brian Moran on her Ph.D., and
he offered her a job in Chicago.
At first, she wanted to work
with head and neck cancers, she
said. but then she had an oppor-
tunity to advance her career by
working with prostate cancer.
Medical physicists are
charged with maintaining medical
machinery, like X-ray machines.
As a therapeutic physicist, work-
ing with oncologistS, she uses ra-
diation to treat cancer. In brach
therapy, radioactive metal seeds
are implanted to deliver doses of
radiation to the cancer.
Cancer is unchecked cell
growth. Tack said. The idea behind
radiation therapy is to irradiate and
destroy the cancerous cells while
avoiding overdosing healthy sur-
rounding tissue.
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Krystina Tack
After working in Chicago, she
returned to Sweet Home and went
to work at OSU. where she is di-
rector of medical physics.
The program is new at OSU
in a joint program with Oregon
Health Sciences University, start-
ing this school year, she said. and
it is the first time that Oregon has
been able to educate medical phys-
icists.
"I think what motivated me
to come back, everybody I know
is here," Tack said. "I like Sweet
Home. It's why 1 moved back.
I love Sweet Home. Ultimately,
whertver else you go, it's not
home."
And she wants to help her
hometown, she said. "It's a way
she can contribute.
"I just want to make sure if
"there is a need, it's being met."
Tack said. It could be people who
had treatment a long time ago,
people wanting to know the risk of
a certain treatment or family mem-
bers who want to know more about
the disease.
"I want it to be available if
people will benefit from it," she
said.
For more information, contact
Tack at tackmp@gmail.com.
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