Postby Atoq » Fri Jun 29, 2018 3:04 pm
Hi! I would ask what kind of preparation you need to do prior radiation, for example if you should drink water to protect your bladder and bowel. Also if you can use a cream (not before radiation but perhaps after) and which type. If there is something else they suggest to minimize damage to healthy tissues. Food to be avoided, especially in the last two weeks.
It also depends on the size of the tumor, for me for example it would have been essential to just eat liquid food, then I would perhaps have avoided the emergency colostomy due to blockage.
Claudia
1972, 2 kids
Dx rectal cancer 10.2017
T3N2aMX (met left lung 8 mm)
Lynch neg
CEA 1.8
Neoadjuvant chemoradio Xeloda + 25x2 Gy
05.12.17 laparotomic surg. for blockage, colostomy
25.01.18 laparotomic lar, hysterectomy, ileostomy
05.03.18 core needle lung biopsy
07.05.18 CAT scan, lung met 11 mm
04.06.18 ileo reversal
26.06.18 wedge VATS
24.08.18, 31.02.19 CAT scan
12.09.18, 06.02.19 scope, CEA 1.6
19.11.18 scope
20.08.19 CAT, eco
13.09.19 scope, CEA 1.2
18.03.20 CAT, eco, scope, NED
29.11.20 CAT, NED
2023 NED