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.
In this study, Yale University researchers looked at data from more than 4,000 Medicare patients aged 66 and older who received either the newer radiation therapy or the standard radiation therapy as primary treatment for prostate cancer. The average per-patient cost was about $13,600 for the new therapy and $21,000 for the standard therapy. Two years after the start of treatment, patients who received the newer therapy had more side effects -- such as irritation of the urethra, urinary incontinence and urinary obstruction -- than those who received standard radiation therapy.