Radiation/IMRT/Tomotherapy

16 years 8 months ago #6483 by wendy
Replied by wendy on topic Radiation/IMRT/Tomotherapy
Hi,

IMRT is a big improvement, tomotherapy is a form of IMRT, better yet. Your mother must be in a top institution with cutting edge technology.

I wish you and your mother the best with the upcoming treatments. Please keep us posted.

Here's an article from 2000: blcwebcafe.org/frontpagenews3.htm

And: www.brachytherapy.com/tomotherapy.html "... * Tomo can treat big or little tumors, single or multiple tumors, one region of the body or several regions, to the same dosage in every area or to multiple different dosages. The possibilities are endless!
* Tomo can avoid organs we tell it to. We can miss the eye and treat a sinus. Miss the spinal cord and retreat the spinal bones. Miss the kidneys and treat the pancreas.

Tomotherapy is actually a form of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)..."

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16 years 8 months ago #6482 by Halsmum
Radiation/IMRT/Tomotherapy was created by Halsmum
I'm new to all this radiation talk!!!

My mother just finished 8 cycles of cisplatin/gemcitabine/taxotere every 3 weeks...her doctors have now decided she should have radiation along with a low dose of gemzar, to try to shrink her tumors. So far, her tumors have grown, however growth has been limited to just over 1 cm since February when she began her chemo regimen, and her cancer has not spread anywhere else in her body. :)

So now next week she begins radiation every day. She has been told that she will need a minimum of 6 weeks, more close to 10 weeks of radiation 5 days a week. They are going to begin her radiation with an IMRT machine, and possibly end with Tomotherapy.

Anyone familiar/had the same sort of radiation schedule?? Just not sure what sort of side effects to expect. I'm just really concerned about damage to surrounding tissue and those lasting effects. Thanks for listening!

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