New UCLA research on rads

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dlb823
dlb823 Member Posts: 9,430
edited June 2014 in Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After

Oh, great (said with sarcasm).  Not sure how this will impact anyone facing an RT decision now, but it's not very comforting to those of us who have had RT:

http://www.cancer.ucla.edu/Index.aspx?page=644&recordid=560&returnURL=/index.aspx

Deanna 

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  • Zoe-Lily
    Zoe-Lily Member Posts: 85
    edited February 2012
    Deanna,

    Thanks for sharing .I am schedule for RT in mid March . I am speechless at this point after reading this article. It is bad enough we are dealing with this nightmare disease , we also have to deal with confusion over the treatments we are enduring.... disturbing article.
     
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  • peggy_j
    peggy_j Member Posts: 1,700
    edited February 2012

    Deanna, thanks for posting. (I think ;)  Do you know, have there been studies that track the type of cancer that's likely to come with a recurrence? I have grade 1 and had asked my MO if any recurrence would be the same type. She said generally yes, the recurrence is the same grade; it's possible for the cancer cells to mutate but she said it's unusual. Obviously, that's not a statisical sample. And with second primaries, all bets are off. But I'm wondering if past studies have shown the end-results implied by this new study, even if we didn't know the cause. (I just did a quick search on PubMed and got sidetracked reading other studies...)

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