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(also known as Radiation, Radiation Therapy)
Radiotherapy is commonly used for the treatment of malignant tumours (cancer), and may be used as the primary therapy. It is also common to combine radiotherapy with surgery and/or chemotherapy and/or hormone therapy. Most common cancer types can be treated with radiotherapy in some way. The precise treatment intent (r... more at Wikipedia
Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Breast Cancer | 166 |
96% |
| Brain / CNS Tumors | 139 |
78% |
| Thyroid Cancer | 95 |
87% |
| Colon Cancer | 49 |
96% |
| Head and Neck cancers | 45 |
78% |
Overall, 88% (762
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Radiotherapy Reviews
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The treatment was pretty much nothing. The internal radiation wasn't fun, but pretty much nothing. A side effect for me has been all abdominal. Daily ick, and bathroom issues,EVERY day. Not huge, but sometimes exhausting and always irritating.
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Can't speak for what it did as he died two months later. I think it made him worse as he could not eat and he just constantly lost weight.
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Other than losing the hair on my stomach, which regrew looking the same, no obvious side effects.
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Hard going but worth it in the end. Daily for 9 weeks
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It worked. It shrunk my tumor. But it made me more susceptible to skin cancer, and hurt my throat.
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Dig. in 1990....3 bouts of RAI....cured....now 19 yrs. later the cancer has returned
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I-131 twice, one year apart. No side effects, but for a few days after taking the pill it was hard to avoid contact with other people.
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worked
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radiation at the same time as chemo oct/nov '08
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Nasty the worst of all. the techs treated all of us as though we were just lumps. and my bad back made it hard to stay still ended up taking lortab 10 mg before and 10 mg after just to survive (except the Friday I worked none after until late in the afternoon)
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I have been so sick with this chemotherapy, and I finally feel better today. Two more times to go and then I am supposed to go for radiation. I am... [More]
