Re: No sternum

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

For breast cancer, you try to avoid lung fribrosis.  I

have never heard of concerns regarding damages to the

ribs or sternum.



--- andre geerdink <volkswagen181@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Hi Glenn,

> 

> You find fibrosis in liver following

> liver-irradiation and liver-surgery(in 

> patients). Liver can lose function and change in

> appearance under the 

> microscope. If I remember correctly, the combination

> of irradiation an 

> surgery is crucial for extreme damage.

> The artikel: Haveman J., James J., and Geerdink

> A.G.: Collagen content in 

> rat liver after experimentally induced cholestasis

> followed by 

> choledochjejunostomy and X-irradiation.

> 

> André Geerdink

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> >From: "Glenn and Rita Marshall"

> <gmarshall@knology.net>

> >Reply-To: "Glenn and Rita Marshall"

> <gmarshall@knology.net>

> >To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> >Subject: No sternum

> >Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:19:54 -0500

> >

> >I have a question for you medical HPs out there. 

> My mother-in-law has had 

> >three surgical procedures done on her heart in the

> last 2 months.  Her 

> >sternum has just about disintegrated, to the point

> where now they cannot 

> >even close her up.  The surgeon thinks her sternum

> became embrittled from 

> >the radiation treatments she had a few years ago

> when she had breast 

> >cancer.  I'm positive he's nuts, and have said so. 

> But I'm not in the 

> >medical HP field so I don't have any actual numbers

> in front of me to prove 

> >my point.  What is the typical dose to a breast

> cancer patient from 

> >brachytherapy?  What is the high end?  I have no

> idea how many treatments 

> >she had; in fact until today I thought all they did

> was chemo.

> >

> >If there are any MDs who might know the reason for

> the breakdown of the 

> >sternum, please let me know.

> >

> >Thanks,

> >

> >Glenn

> 

>

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