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Scarring from radiation
Hi all hope everyone is well. Im 41 and been given option to do 4 or 6 weeks of radiation. My initial reaction was to just do 4 weeks to get it over and done with but I unfortunately googled things no...
Newbie3312- I try to keep the blinds closed too and don’t ask too much because I know I can’t handle more than what’s directly in front of me. I googled one thing today and I have been totally ill ever since with information I wish I didn’t know. I am having my internal mammary chain radiated because one node is showing up enlarged after having my planning CT. It wasn’t there on my original scans 7 months ago. I knew it was an ominous sign but reading it made it so much worse. My oncologist didn’t make a big deal of it - another PET/ CT showed nothing else - but I know it is associated with a poor prognosis.
So, I am worried about cardiac and pulmonary damage from the rads, but mostly just that my life expectancy is probably pretty short. And there’s not one thing I can do about it. Nasty, nasty disease.