Hi Chris,

Welcome to Cancer Chat and I am sorry to hear about your wife's diagnosis. Have you spoken to your wife's consultant about Proton Therapy?I have had two bouts of primary breast cancer myself and I also lost my mother to secondary breast cancer. I was diagnosed 7 years ago and had the second bout the following year. Due to procedural delays in surgery, I had grave concerns about radiotherapy. I discussed this with my surgeon and he referred me to 2 eminent researchers in radiotherapy for advice.

The advice from the 2 were at polar opposites to each other, but it did give me enough evidence to decide for myself and decline this form of treatment at that time.

Have you tried using the search facility on the blue bar at the top of this page? If you pop in Proton Therapy, it should bring up previous posts on this topic, which you might find useful. You might also find it helpful to discuss this with the nurses on this site. They can be contacted by Freehone on 0808 800 4040, and are a very helpful bunch.

I do hope that, whatever your wife's decision, it is the right one for her. Please keep in touch and let us know how she gets on. We are always here for both of you, whenever you feel like talking.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx