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What Kind of Radiation Did You Get for Your Gynecological Cancer?
Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Feb 4, 2023 | Replies (77)Comment receiving replies
Question, no chemo, just radiation 2 years later, I was Figo Grade1, but liason on serous backside so is 3A, so am to have chemo 6 times 3 weeks apart, had been told 8 routines radiation however saw the Dr. last Monday who said 25 and 2 brachytherapy treatments. My head is still spinning so much more than I had thought originally thought. there was no involvement of ovary, tubes , or lymph nodes. Just seems so much.
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@terradean That is a lot to handle. No wonder your head is spinning. Did your oncologist explain why you will get more radiation sessions than you were originally told?
Were you first diagnosed with uterine cancer two years ago? What kind of uterine cancer were you diagnosed with? So now two years later is it the same kind of cancer that came back (a recurrence)?
In my case I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer (endometrioid adenocarcinoma, FIGO Grade 1) in 2019. I had a radical hysterectomy in 2019 that took also the ovaries, and fallopian tubes and cervix. There was no cancer anywhere else. I had a recurrence in late 2021 of the same cancer that showed up as a small lesion on the vaginal cuff.
Cancers are not all the same so the treatments will be different depending on the kind of cancer. Is it possible that your oncologist is making sure that they get as much of the cancer cells as possible?