Cancer Center – Emergency Medical Services
If you need emergency medical services for a life-threatening condition, please call 911.
Call the Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center only after you have made arrangements to get to the Emergency Room.
Urgent calls can be made 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Please call our office at (530) 582-6450.
Notify us immediately if you exhibit any of the following symptoms:
- New fever of 100.4 F. or 38 C. degrees or greater
- Uncontrollable nausea or vomiting
- New or uncontrolled pain
- Chest pains or shortness of breath
- Severe shaking or chills
- Bleeding from the nose or gums
- Blood in the urine
- Black, tarry bowel movement
- Severe diarrhea
- Constipation with intense abdominal cramping
- Changes in your vision or hearing
- Increased bruising or pinpoint red or purple spots anywhere on the body
- New numbness or tingling of fingers or toes
Call during regular office hours (8:30 am– 5:00 pm Monday-Friday) if these apply:
- Scheduling questions or changes
- If you have questions about your medication, treatment or side effects
- If you’re having nutritional problems
- If you need a prescription refilled
- Please call by 3 p.m. and have your pharmacy’s phone number available
- For narcotics such as Percocet, MS Contin or Oxycontin, plan to come into the office for a written prescription. By law, your pharmacy must have a written prescription. Narcotic prescription refills will not be handled on weekends.
- If you’ve heard about a new treatment
If you need help managing side effects, call (530) 582-6450. Chances are, we can prescribe or suggest something to make you more comfortable.
