When is radiation scheduled after surgery

MGordon · 03-10-2007, 11:31 AM

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

Love and Light
Mel

Emelie · 03-10-2007, 11:43 AM

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

MGordon · 03-10-2007, 12:07 PM

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

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Love and Light
Mel

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

Bev · 03-10-2007, 08:53 PM

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

atdec05 · 03-11-2007, 10:40 AM

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

tousled1 · 03-11-2007, 09:19 PM

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.