As someone who has traveled extensively, my best trips include fun and loving companions, a non-rushed pace, a safe and pleasant place to eat and sleep at the beginning and end of each day, plenty of fresh air and exercise, and trustworthy maps. It is the same for cancer treatment. Surgery, although a serious business, seems dwarfed by the life-saving treatments that follow. For, they come with a price: a varying degree and array of side effects. Specialists — radiologist, pathologist, surgeon, radiation oncologist, oncologist — oversee different stages of treatment. In the meantime, the patient and her/his family are digesting all of the information and considering decisions based…