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Palliative radiotherapy for brain tumours

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I hopefuly have 5 sessions of daily palliative radiotherapy for the brain booked as from next week  Has anyone else had this and did it improve confusion?  I will be having chemo and herceptin too and wonder if I will be able to cope with the side effects afterwards?  I have only had targeted radiotherapy before (about a year ago) and presume this will affect me differently as it is not targeted and will affect the good cells as well as bad this time  I would appreciate any information  Thank you  Max56

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    Hi Max,

    No direct experience of this but presumably it won't be as heavy duty as the orginal targeted treatment...one would expect that if it shrinks the beast a bit it will reverse the symptoms. Ray found that increased levels of morphine caused a fair bit of confusion for him  - mainly struggling to find the right word or taking a bit longer to pick up on new info. I have to say though from your message you don't seem too confused at all.

    It is lovely to hear from you, I am sure many will agree.

    keep fighting that fight girl

    best regards sueps

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    Hi Max,

    No direct experience of this but presumably it won't be as heavy duty as the orginal targeted treatment...one would expect that if it shrinks the beast a bit it will reverse the symptoms. Ray found that increased levels of morphine caused a fair bit of confusion for him  - mainly struggling to find the right word or taking a bit longer to pick up on new info. I have to say though from your message you don't seem too confused at all.

    It is lovely to hear from you, I am sure many will agree.

    keep fighting that fight girl

    best regards sueps

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