As I've had recurrences I've had to have rads twice. Would very strongly recommend you research mepitel film and ask for it. I had 34 rads with mepitel film and only the slightest pink, I had 25 rads without mepitel and the skin broke down completely, serious burn and horrid infection. It reallllllly does make a difference. It doesn't get offered automatically. They just expect you to put up with the pain and the burn to save some $$ with all the shit other side effects we go through you would think that they should just give it to us without having to ask, most of us don't know to ask so we go through pain that we don't have to.