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Belgrave14
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6 years ago

Radiotherapy twice a day!

Oh the joys of having a rare cancer! I meet with my radiotherapy guy today, supposed to be one of the best in the field, really lovely and very willing to discuss things. I was there for an hour. He told me that the current standard for Inflammatory Breast Cancer is treatment TWICE a day, either four or six hours apart depending on which school of thought you follow. Has anyone else been through this? I was pretty gobsmacked tbh, I had psyched myself up for every day but twice!!!!  Not just the logistics, if I can’t drive myself I don’t know what I can do, but there wouldn’t be much recovery time.
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  • JoeyLiz's avatar
    JoeyLiz
    Member
    6 years ago
    At my department inflammatory is treated with the same regime as other breasts (16 or 25 treatments depending on if nodes are treated). We only treat twice a day if the patients needs to finish by a certain date, certainly not for the whole course. 6 hours is the standard gap to give healthy cells time to recover, never heard of 4. But with clinical trials and such 'standards' are being updated all the time.
    Best wishes x
  • tigerbeth's avatar
    tigerbeth
    Member
    6 years ago
    What a pain that would be !!@belgrave14

    Where are you having the radiation at? Normally you can drive easily but everyone is different .
    Good luck x

  • Belgrave14's avatar
    Belgrave14
    Member
    6 years ago
    I’m at Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney @tigerbeth. Sorry for the late reply, had my last Chemo on Tuesday. Taxol is a bitch!