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I had 7 1/2 weeks of IMRT radiation. It was to the prostate bed so I am sure they did zap some lymph nodes during the process. They put tattoos on my stomach to be able to line me up for each treatment.

That was 12 years ago and I really didn’t understand enough to ask specifically what they were zapping. It is pretty standard to get the lymph nodes in that area since they are susceptible to reoccurrence.

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I’m going through that now. I asked about lymph nodes and my RO said that they would be zapping everything including lymph nodes even though all 19 nodes during my prostatectomy were negative for cancer.