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What happens during radiation for esophageal cancer?
Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: May 9 2:37pm | Replies (63)Comment receiving replies
@glassamigos My heart goes out to your husband for his ordeal and also to you. Would you mind saying where he received treatment and what type radiation? I had proton radiation therapy at MD Anderson. It's of course designed for the "energy packets" to die at the tumor, after delivering their energy to the tumor. This is specifically to avoid the type of side effects your husband suffered. I've really heard of no one else who has had to go through anything like that. I apologize, if you've already made where and how clear in a previous post. These threads are hard to follow sometimes, over a period of time...
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@earle , Thank you so much for your kind remarks❤️. We live in Texarkana, Texas. The radiation treatments were done at the Temple Webber Cancer Certer at the local hospital, Christus St. Michael. Due to financial constraints, we weren't able to go to a large, well-known hospital.
In all honesty, I don't know what type of radiation the treatments were. Not sure we were ever told, or if I was just in the state of mind that I didn't understand, which could have very well been possible, under the circumstances. When we were given the diagnosis, the doctor told us that we needed to do x-y-z, but no referrals, no locations, nothing. He said well, you can go here, or here, or here, or maybe even here if you want. I walked out of there in tears and immediately called our primary care physician's office when we got home to make an appointment to see him. At that appointment, we filled him in on everything and he told us not to worry about a thing, he would get us hooked up. Within a week, we had an appointment at CARTI, in Little Rock. At that time, a game plan was put in place. After an EUS and scope, the radiation and chemo schedule was created in the anticipation of eventual surgery. Since Little Rock is 2 1/2 from home, one way, the daily radiation treatments were set to be done locally.
Everyone that we have dealt with after our diagnosis has been absolutely wonderful to us, including the surgeons we consulted with.
We feel that we're blessed to even be in the state we are at the present, as we certainly weren't sure of anything....at all.