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Radiation or not after surgery for endometrial cancer?

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I had my follow-up today in Calgary, and now I have to make a decision. No chemo is required. Standard of care is to do radiation, but a clinical trial is being offered where there is no radiation because of the POLE mutation - they just observe every three months, and then treat if there is a recurrence. I guess the choice is between being proactive and preventative, or reactive and treating cancer again if it comes back. I am leaning towards doing the radiation. I would rather stop it in its tracks than have to try and get rid of it again. It will be 5 weeks of 5 days a week, 25 treatments - external only.

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Helen, Volunteer Mentor | @naturegirl5 | Feb 28 9:08am

@dlgbb Thanks for coming back and letting me know about your follow-up exam. There is a Discussion that I started in our Gynecological Support Group on radiation therapy that you might like to read through. You'll get various perspectives including side effects, if any. Personally, when I had radiation therapy (external and internal) after a recurrence in the vaginal cuff I had very few side effects. I experienced a little fatigue, occasional diarrhea, and that's really all. I continued weightlifting and balance training and went for daily walks. I went for 5 days/week for 5 weeks for external and then 2 treatments of brachytherapy (internal). I met with the radiation oncology nurse and the radiation oncologist weekly to monitor my progress and to discuss any problems I was having.

Discussion: What kind of radiation therapy did you get for your gynecological cancer?

-- https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/types-of-radiation-treatments-for-gynecological-cancers/

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