Radiation on hip bone.
Hi, have metastatic breast cancer , left breast, left lymph and two lesions in hip bone, just finished six months chemo, 4 AC/T and 12 Taxol. no change , so semi good news. Have a lot of pain in my hi...
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Hi @Silba,
Wanting to say I admire you cos after getting through six months of chemo following news of hip bone mets and getting to all steady results, you are setting sails for the next things for your best health.
How best to manage hip pain?
If you decide radiotherapy, am wondering how the timing and dose will best fit in with your bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction? Should you go for radiotherapy, which helped my hip mets ages ago, I know the radiotherapy doses can be much more targeted now and with a short course. Not sure if this is still only available through clinical trials? Maybe another member here can help should you want to check radiotherapy things out close by for you. Usually the chemotherapy doctor refers you over to a radiotherapy doctor with all the tumour cell details.
Figuring out the timing? Just guessing, maybe your doctor has said something like: let your body pick up from the chemo, then have the surgery and then think about the rads???
So maybe you want to find out if there is a way or ways you can knock the hip pain out of the equation, or at least make it more liveable for before and after your surgery period, if this is the order you are looking at.
Costs, gaps etc??
Hoping this part of the forum here might help you tease out the best ways for you closest to home, specially as radiotherapy, e.g. to breast, breast surgery and plastic surgery can be a part of what people need to figure their way through whether they have an early stage BC or mets. Jenny x
Wanting to say I admire you cos after getting through six months of chemo following news of hip bone mets and getting to all steady results, you are setting sails for the next things for your best health.
How best to manage hip pain?
If you decide radiotherapy, am wondering how the timing and dose will best fit in with your bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction? Should you go for radiotherapy, which helped my hip mets ages ago, I know the radiotherapy doses can be much more targeted now and with a short course. Not sure if this is still only available through clinical trials? Maybe another member here can help should you want to check radiotherapy things out close by for you. Usually the chemotherapy doctor refers you over to a radiotherapy doctor with all the tumour cell details.
Figuring out the timing? Just guessing, maybe your doctor has said something like: let your body pick up from the chemo, then have the surgery and then think about the rads???
So maybe you want to find out if there is a way or ways you can knock the hip pain out of the equation, or at least make it more liveable for before and after your surgery period, if this is the order you are looking at.
Costs, gaps etc??
Hoping this part of the forum here might help you tease out the best ways for you closest to home, specially as radiotherapy, e.g. to breast, breast surgery and plastic surgery can be a part of what people need to figure their way through whether they have an early stage BC or mets. Jenny x