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Has anyone here had radiotherapy following chemo and hysterectomy please? I was fine with chemo, hardly any side effects, but I have to have radiotherapy 5 days a week for 5 weeks :(
Thanks in advance
Baths
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Thanks in advance
Baths
x x x
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I have had a radical hysterectomy followed by chemo and then radiotherapy . Chemo was not as bad as I anticipated but still not a walk in the park. Radiotherapy is totally painless and very quick. The only snag being that, in my own case, I had to travel in daily to central London to the hospital using Patient Transport (because of mobility problems) and this...
14:25 Sun 19th Feb 2017
Hi baths
4500 cGy in 25 fractions ( 5 x 5 therefore five weeks worth)
is 45 grays - I got 40 in 15 (three weeks ) to my pelvis and then had an operation and felt pretty awful for a year
whereas last year I got another 40 - zapping my rt orbit this time - they have to nail your head to the floor in order to get you to keep still for that one - and I didnt feel too bad
Smaller area....perhaps I knew what it was gonna be like
anyway - 'we' are just getting into the fifth week
you will have heard lots of people dinging the dinger and it willbe your turn soon
( take a camera and get someone to take a photie )
sozza about the delay
I have only just seen the post
4500 cGy in 25 fractions ( 5 x 5 therefore five weeks worth)
is 45 grays - I got 40 in 15 (three weeks ) to my pelvis and then had an operation and felt pretty awful for a year
whereas last year I got another 40 - zapping my rt orbit this time - they have to nail your head to the floor in order to get you to keep still for that one - and I didnt feel too bad
Smaller area....perhaps I knew what it was gonna be like
anyway - 'we' are just getting into the fifth week
you will have heard lots of people dinging the dinger and it willbe your turn soon
( take a camera and get someone to take a photie )
sozza about the delay
I have only just seen the post
No worries, pp.
Blimey, sounds like you've been through the mill ;)
I'm getting a bit concerned that I haven't had any side-effects from either treatment ....are they doing it right, lol.
There's no way I'm ringing that bell....can't act like I'm cured for 5 years yet ;)
Dave who takes me on a Friday has said he'll ring it :) x x
Blimey, sounds like you've been through the mill ;)
I'm getting a bit concerned that I haven't had any side-effects from either treatment ....are they doing it right, lol.
There's no way I'm ringing that bell....can't act like I'm cured for 5 years yet ;)
Dave who takes me on a Friday has said he'll ring it :) x x