Whole Breast Radiation after IORT

looking4answerstoo

I had a lumpectomy and IORT on August 17, 2012. I started whole breast radiation this week because they found a 4MM IDBC in 1 sentenil node. I waited this long to start the radiation because my incision opened up and had to heal from the inside, this took several months. WB external radiation started this Monday, on Tuesday I saw a new medical oncologist and he was concerned because my incision site looked red, he wanted me to see my surgeon, he was worried about infection. I saw my surgeon and she didn't like the way my scar looked and recommended a second surgery to remove the radiated tissue and once this has healed I can start radiation again. I spoke to the radiation oncologist and he agreed with the surgeon. I spoke to the surgeon tonight and she. said I had an option to do nothing, I will be taking aromaste inhibitors. My dilemma is whether to do the surgery and continue with the radiation or not to do the radiation or the surgery. My breast will be smaller and smaller yet from radiation. I wonder how beneficial the radiation will be if it is put off for a month or more and if I do the surgery and can't do te radiation I have no benefits. I spoke to the radiation oncologist tonight and I will dicuss things with him on Monday. My surgery is scheduled for next Friday.



Has anyone had a lumpectomy, IORT and wv radiation?



1.2 cm, IDBC, ER+ , PR+, HERS 2 negative, grade 1, stage II A, 1 lymph node lnvolvemet 4mm

emmalee

Do you know if you had Mammosite or SAVI or something like an x-ray device delivery?  It is critical to avoid overexposure to the skin of the breast during IORT.  Your skin dose may have been significantly higher than it should have been.  Institutions should stop the procedure if the breast is small and/or the lump is located in a position close to the skin to avoid dose complications of the skin.  You are having complications of the skin so I must wonder if they hurt you with the radiation dose.  Sometimes people get pushed through an uncaring medical system.  If it was me, I would have taken the nutritional and detoxification approach and healed it metabolically without the harmful radiation and surgeries - Gerson Therapy, etc. has quite a high success rate if you can stick to it.  You can watch the documentary Dying to Have Known on YouTube.  You might also get a copy of your treatment plan and see if your skin was in the treatment field which it shouldn't have been.  I wouldn't take any chemo at all.  The FDA took Avastin off the label for treatment of breast cancer because too many women were being hurt maybe even died by that $10,000 per month therapy.  Be very careful; ask for evidence and proof of a cure; and I would be looking for alternative treatments that work better.

emmalee

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emmalee

I hope you are well.  I had not heard back from you and was wondering if they properly staged you before your IORT.  I believe that mistaging a cancer is malpractice.  Did they check your node staus before giving you IORT?  To have complications in your healing suggests to me that you had a rather curative or large radiation dose not a smaller boost dose of radiation which would be followed by whole breast radiation.

I just remembered, in case you are considering chemotherapy, there is a chemosensitivity test that is available in the US and Germany that determines which chemotherapy agents will work against which cancers.  Suzanne Somers has a blog about chemosensitivity testing on her website.  I believe it is a person's best chance at finding an effective chemo treatment.  People just need to send their tissue sample or blood out for testing.  I heard that the result weeds out all ineffective treatments that are often given out to patients routinely.  This tesing is very rigorous but it's not very expensive.