I am a 25 year old female. I was diagnosed with a primary brain tumor in June 2008 and underwent surgery to remove it. It was the size of an apple and diagnosed a grade 2 tumor. It grew back in September 2008 and that's when i began rigorous radiation and oral chemotherapy (Temozolomide). My recent MRI has showed the regrowth of the tumor to be "gone." The plan is to take the Temozolomide for 2 years along with Accutane (which helps the oral chemotherapy work better).
Hi, I have undergone surgery and now I will have 28 radiotherapy sessions due to a found carcinoma in situ. I would like to know what are most common side effects for this treatment. Thank you very much.
My sister 42 years, has got after 7 years metastasis from her breast cancer on bones and liver. She has 5 metastasis in the liver and in the hip. She is Brca1 carrier and the tumor is HER2 negative. She is on a palliative treatment and has passed three cycles of chemotherapy: docetaxel plus avastin (each cycle after 21 days). Apart from that she has got 10X radiation (max dose) on the right hip.
Did they give radiotherapy to abdomen area and nodes also? I hope cancer has not spread in your fathers case. But it is protocol to get your MRI done post therapy. That will clear all the doubts.
They are having the topotecan+bsi-201 trial at Yale in Connecticut and at Sloan Kettering in NYC. I don't know where you live and if these locations are convenient to you. There are a couple of other locations that are giving this particular trial now as well, but you'd have to check www.clinicaltrials.gov.
A continuous relation exists between the length of time between surgery and radiotherapy and risk for local recurrence in older women with breast cancer. The authors conclude "that there is no ‘safe' threshold in terms of waiting time and that radiotherapy should therefore be started as soon as possible" in these patients.(End quote)
Best wishes...
Hi,
I won't offer an opinion, but here is some information for your consideration, from a recent Lancet study:
"Radiotherapy and Tamoxifen Show Long-Term Benefits in Locally Excised Ductal Carcinoma In Situ
A Lancet Oncology study confirms that radiotherapy provides long-term benefits to women with locally excised ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), and provides new evidence that tamoxifen helps prevent recurrence as well.
In the study, conducted in the U.K.
I'm a radiation oncologist and have had some experience in this area. The treatment of choice for cancer of the oral part of the tongue is usually surgery. But small such cancers can also be cured with radiotherapy. If radiotherapy is used, the preferred method in suitable candidates is implantation of radioactive material in the tongue. This should be done only by a radiation oncologist who has had a good deal of experience with this procedure.
Comparing radiotherapy versus no radiotherapy, there is an advantage in decreasing local recurrence, with a risk reduction of about 40-50%.
Hope this helps.
I read that external radiotherapy can be used in tumors that don't take up the radioactive iodine---since you can't do RAI, maybe this would be an option for you.
good luck, you have some tough things.
She has recently been diagnosed with stage 3 anal cancer and been advised that chemotherapy and radiotherapy combined for 6 weeks is the standard protocol. We are have our concerns with this treatment as having the E.V. condition could cause the cancer to flare up and become more aggressive when having radiotherapy. We were hoping that there maybe some targeted immunotherapy drugs maybe available??? Can anyone please help? Kind regards.
operative and post radiotherapy state of right temporal Glioblastoma. Pre and post contrast MR imaging of BRAIN was done using following protocol: Evidence of right sided craniotomy is noted. Irregular CSF signal intensity area is noted in all sequences in right temporal region with mild exvacuo dilatation of right lateral ventricle. Small nodular enhancing area with surrounding gyriform enhancement is noted in posterior aspect of right temporal lobe and there is adjacent dural enhancement.
The products in question are Temodar (temozolomide) for brain cancer and hepatitis C and cancer drugs PegIntron (pegylated interferon alfa-2b) and Intron A (interferon alfa-2b), according to Merck's just-published quarterly report. All three of the drugs were acquired when Merck bought Schering-Plough in 2009.
The corresponding prostate cancer-specific survival rates were 79%, 87%, and 92%. Patients undergoing radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy had lower overall mortality than patients undergoing conservative management (adjusted relative risk 0.67 for radiotherapy and 0.41 for prostatectomy; P <0.001). The increase in the survival duration was 4.6 years with radiotherapy and 8.6 years with radical prostatectomy (1).
operative and post radiotherapy state of right temporal Glioblastoma. Pre and post contrast MR imaging of BRAIN was done using following protocol: Evidence of right sided craniotomy is noted. Irregular CSF signal intensity area is noted in all sequences in right temporal region with mild exvacuo dilatation of right lateral ventricle. Small nodular enhancing area with surrounding gyriform enhancement is noted in posterior aspect of right temporal lobe and there is adjacent dural enhancement.
However, there was a report in 2011 from a small research study that investigated the efficacy and toxicity of a second curative radiotherapy series in cases of recurrent breast cancer.
It concluded that "repeat radiotherapy for recurrent breast cancer with total radiation dose of 60 Gy and the addition of hyperthermia in the majority of patients was feasible, with acceptable late morbidity and improved prognosis, particularly in patients with previous resection of recurrent tumors.
My husband has had a problem with ongoing blood in stools//urine after radiotherapy treatment. He has had 2 colonoscopies and a couple of cystoscopies just to double check for anything else but luckily they were fine.
He eventually recovered from it. His radiotherapy was over sometime in may. In the month of July, his neck and shoulder started to pain. The intensity of the pain kept increasing, there came a time when he couldn't get out of bed. He took some physiotherapy as suggested by the surgeon but it was all in vain. In August the pain became unbearable. He got another PET Scan done which showed cancer cells in the surgical bed.currently he is undergoing targeted therapy.
Does this sound like one of the more agressive types of lymph cancer? He is undergoing 3 weeks of radiotherapy, and if thats unsuccessful he will have chemo.
I know its hard to comment with such little information, but I really wish I knew what his prognisis was and whether im worrying about nothing.
So we are trying to find some medicine, which could be taken along with the radiotherapy and the chemotherapy after that in order to strengthen her immune system and make her breathe better and have appetite. Can somebody recommend something? Thank you very much!
Is there any type of radiation treatment for post-ductal carcinoma in situ after a lumpectomy that is safer, that does less damage to the heart and lungs, arteries, that I could ask for? It is too late for me to have brachytherapy now. I am really worried about the long term side effects of radiotherapy and am hoping that there is some safer type of radiotherapy so I don't have to worry about health problems 10, 20 years from now caused by radiation treatments to the breast and chest area.
Then the surgeons give you several choices, 1] Chemotherapy 2] Radiotherapy 3] Both Chemo and Radiotherapy 4] A mastectomy to avoid both Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy 5] An Aromataze Inhibitor with oral pills, this treatment is after the surgery.
There are many other possibilities depending on your ER, PR and HER2Neu.
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