When is radiation scheduled after surgery
 

Trying to plan for our move to Denver and scheduling radiation in our new location. Can anyone please tell me how many weeks you usaully go after surgery before you start? Also, do you keep getting Herceptin during radiation.
Thank you agian for all your help.
Emelie

Radiation typically starts 3-4 weeks after surgery (or chemo depending on one's circumstances). It can start even alittle later. Rule of thumb average is one month. Herceptin continues through rads.


Best of luck with treatment and your move.

Moving to Denver...
 

...I am right up the road near Boulder. Need anything?

Love and Light
Mel

Thank you for responding to my constant inquiries! This information will help with the scheduling of all this. My husband will be starting with a new company, so all of this needs to be orchastrated around that. Sure keeps me on my toes.
Mel, I will definitely look you up when we get there. Has Spring sprung your way yet?
Thanks again,
Emelie

I hear birds chirping as I type...
 

We did have an unusually hard winter this year - we had 38 inches of snow, followed by 19, followed by 17, followed by 12... It went on for weeks - but right now ALL the snow around my house is gone and the crocus, tulips, and hyacynths are all blooming and the birds are singing. WooHoo! Yep - spring has sprung!!! You're gonna love it here ( but try not to tell too many people how great it is out here - enough move in every day http://www.her2support.org/vbulletin...ons/icon12.gif)

Love and Light
Mel

PS - who is hubby going to work for - if it is OK to ask?

Yes I did do left side rads during Herceptin. I'm sure there is a window for when rads are most effective. 12 weeks is ringing a bell, but you'll have to keep searching. If you do chemo, you don't get rads for 6 months or so.

Glad it's spring somewhere. My daffy's were weighed down by snow last week. Crocus are unusually late. It will get here though. BB

The timing of my radiation may be a bit different since I finished chemo in Jan 06 and finished Herceptin in 07. I have a local recurrence so will start rads about 2 weeks after surgery. I'm having a wide excision (had mastectomy in 05), so perhaps that's why they're only giving me 2 weeks between surgery & rads.

- Anna

I started radiation (x35 last 5 were boosts) about 6 weeks after my surgery. I did however start Herceptin two weeks after my surgery and continued with the Herceptin during radiaiton. I believe the reason I had to wait the 6 weeks was because I couldn't get my arms up over my head and I was getting radiation to the chest and entire axillary area.