Radiotherapy for Throat Cancer

Hello all,

I have posted my little story on introduce yourself and basically I have been diagnosed with Stage 1 Throat cancer.

The prognosis is hopeful and I remain cheerful and positive. Its taken a while for the actual treatment to start so glad to get on with it at last.

I started my first day of radiotherpy today and have 29 more treatments to go over 6 week period.
I have made a little computer programme that logs my side effects and summarises episodes of each heading and I plan on keeping a daily log of how things went/ how I feel ( good and bad ) and map out my journey. I find it therapuetic.

I will share periodically in the hope that even if it helps one person as well as myself  it will be worthwhile.

So day 1 was fine and I dont really feel any difference or notice anything.
One small point is that the mask made was slightly harder than when it was first made as it has set little harder over the weeks and was a little more moveable on the day made.
Took about 10 mins for actual radiotherpay treatment itself.
Drove home fine.

Meet with advanced practioner nurse every Thurs to discuss progress.
Aware might be a little different along the way but all good after day 1.

 

kind regards

Ian

 

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  • Hi Ian 

    just dropped by to say good luck with your treatment. The blog is a great idea to get things off your chest and to help others coming behind you. My hubby had chemoradiation- 5 cycles of chemo and 30 fractions of VMAT radiotherapy Feb to March 2016 and has been in remission since July 2016. 

    Hope things go smoothly for you.

    all the best 

    Emma 

  • HI my husband had treatment chemo and radiotherapy on throat cancer early 2019 he has coped really well since and is now eating normally taste is a prob but that seems to be the same for most people, recently he started getting a really sore throat he is cancer clear and consultant can't see anything wrong and doesn't seeem to want to help he is now at the point of not wanting to eat a it so sore, can Inask do u know of anyone else this has happened to we don where to turn , did your husband experience pain after a year that he didn't have before

    Kind regards

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  • HI my husband had treatment chemo and radiotherapy on throat cancer early 2019 he has coped really well since and is now eating normally taste is a prob but that seems to be the same for most people, recently he started getting a really sore throat he is cancer clear and consultant can't see anything wrong and doesn't seeem to want to help he is now at the point of not wanting to eat a it so sore, can Inask do u know of anyone else this has happened to we don where to turn , did your husband experience pain after a year that he didn't have before

    Kind regards

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