Dear Sandy and Janet,
I’m sorry it’s taken so long for me to respond to your responses, but to be quite honest, I am a novice when it comes to these boards, and I wasn’t sure how to get back to the posting. Luckily I printed out the response and someone suggested that I just type in the long string of letters and numbers at the bottom of the page.
What Janet said in her response is generally correct. It is a shorter course of radiation therapy used with radiation seeds. I was told mine would be twice a day for five days. If you go to
www.mammosite.com it explains the procedure in full.
Since I posted my question, I sought out an opinion from a radiation oncologist. He felt that I would NOT be a candidate for the therapy. I was satisfied with his explanation but have run into some problems in conveying my interest in having the external beam radiation treatment to my surgeon’s office. This is causing me additional stress which frankly I don’t need. It has made me wonder whether I should be seeking another surgeon.
I will try to figure out how to use this board. It looks very interesting and by your responses, it seems like it could be very helpful.
Thanks very much for your input and good luck to you both.
Lee