Anyone doing Chemoradiation?
wondering how those of you who are going through clinical trial of low dose chemo and radiation are doing.
what are the side effects?
fingers crossed for you.
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so sweet. thank you
Whishing you the best, @samclembeau. We're here for you, if you need to vent whatever you're feeling. Noone will judge you.
Starting ein a couple of days. Understand the worst part is when it is over (except for mouth sores during treatment) guess I am ready. Can't imagine the pain I am in now could be worse. Let's hope not. Thank you all for your posts. Helps to know what to expect. Good or bad.
yes.
proton radiation with 5-fu
Welcome, @robal. Is chemoradiation a treatment you are preparing for?
wish you the best of luck. please let us know how you are doing.
glad to hear you sphincter muscle was not affected.
@samclembeau
I'm almost 59. Precisely a year ago I took the decision to accept chemoradiation at the lowest dose possible for a very low lying rectal cáncer not even stage 1 (positive margins of the resected polyp). I took 2 tablets of Capecitabine in the morning and 1 in the evening the days of the RT (Monday through Friday). I stopped the Capecitabine after 23 or 24 days, because I starting having parestesias in my left extremities. I kept exercising during the RT in spite of the burns, I just adjusted what exercises I did and the intensity.
My polyp was very close to the sphincter. Now I have developped a very rare rectovaginal fistula 3.2 cm from the anus, in the middle of the necrotised rectal tissue, and we found a ¿new? polyp across from the fistula. My sphincter was not affected by the radiation.
I'm going to have surgery to get rid of the fistula and the polyp.
i am taking step forward for chemoradiation, but i am still keeping the door open for proton radiation instead. i will probably know more after meeting with dr from proton center tomorrow. fingers crossed i get accepted to get proton instead of standard radiation.
My scans showed no evidence of disease (NED), which is always the result we hope to get. The ureter cancer was treated with four courses of chemotherapy (Cisplatin & Gemcitabine), it was supposed to be 6 courses, but my reactions wouldn’t allow for the last two courses. After recovering for a month, I had 28 radiation treatments. I am stage IV metastatic, in palliative care, so our hope is for time. I am still having pelvic floor physical therapy for the damage caused by radiation. I feel very optimistic about my recovery. Hopefully these results will last longer than the first treatment.
How are you doing? Did you decide to go forward with chemoradiotherapy?
Thank you