Re: Radiation Therapy

["John Pickering" <johnjp@email.sjsu.edu>]

Martin,

I am not sure if the dose that your relative is greater than the dose that I
am receiving for prostate cancer. I am receiving about 200 rem perday for
7.5 weeks. The total dose will be around 7400 rem. I am beginning dose
number 20 of 38. I wish her well.
An interesting concept, breast cancer for women is frequently compared to
prostate cancer for men.
John Pickering
johnjp@email.sjsu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: <Martin_Sandel@fpl.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 6:59 AM
Subject: Radiation Therapy


> Hello!
>    I need a little help ( information! ) from the medical professionals
> in the group if possible.  I'm a power plant tech. and am not real
> familiar with the regimens used for various radiation therapies!
>  Background: My mother in-law just had a small malignant mass removed
> from one of her breasts. The doctors got all of the malignancy and the
area
> of tissue around it that was removed was clear of cancerous cells.  They
> performed
> a dye / radioactive dye flow test ( sorry, that's the power plant
> terminology creeping in!)
> to determine which lymph nodes were in the  particular quadrant that the
> lump was in.
>  They determined which was the sentinel node for the quadrant and removed
> it and two
> or three others in proximity to check. They were free of cancerous cells
as
> well.
>  The doctors are now going to give her a course of radiation therapy to
> ensure that
> there are no surviving cancerous cells.  The therapy is for (5) days a
> week, for (6)
> weeks.  The exposure time will be about (10) minutes a day!
> My question is:  Generally, what are the dosages involved in a regimen of
> this
> nature and the health effects to be expected from it?
>   Any information will be appreciated!  Thanks!!
>
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