Gloves are placed by every door, in and out of the mortuary. The mortuary fridge is a large room which can hold two or more bodies at a time. It must always be between 1 and 5 degrees Celsius. This door is fairly typical of a mortuary fridge door. Large metal handle which is pulled to open the door.
The median cost of a course of radiation therapy was $8,600 ($7,300 to $10,300) for breast, $9,000 ($7,500 to $11,100) for lung, and $18,000 ($11,300 to $25,500) for prostate cancer.
Radiation therapy costs vary among Medicare patients. Year of diagnosis, location of treatment, clinic type and individual radiation provider accounted for 44 to 61 percent of the variation in cost for patients with breast, lung and prostate cancer therapies, according to the study published August 11 online.