Cancer Radiation

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My mom has suffered with several types of cancer over the past 3 years and now it’s severely deteriorating all of her bones. She broke a bone in her back 2 days ago just by picking up her coffee pot. Her oncologist says there’s nothing more that can be done. Keeping her out of pain and comfortable is now top priority. He’s having her get radiation treatments daily for the next 2 weeks. He says it’s for pain relief. Is that true?

my aunt had stage 3 breast cancer & undergone chemotherapy a year ago, after that she refused to have any further treatment including surgery & radiation. recently the whole breast is opened up with pus, whole breast upto the armpit is too hard. she refused to take any medication, actually she has psychiatric problem. she only let me change the dressing at home once a day. any idea what will happen next in such case?

My mother was recently diagnosed with stage 3B lung cancer. They immediatly started 5 days of radiation (for a total of 8 weeks) and 6 days for her first round of chemo. Her oncologist did not give her a prognosis, but my mom didn’t ask either. Is that bad news, or did the doctor not say b/c my mother didn’t ask?

Also are there cases where patients would have to practically live in the hospital to have chemo done?
What are common side effects of chemotherapy?

New minimally invasive surgery for breast cancer, coupled with radiation, is offering the same survival rates as traditional surgery. Learn more with Dr. Jennifer Reed.

New minimally invasive surgery for breast cancer, coupled with radiation, is offering the same survival rates as traditional surgery. Learn more with Dr. Jennifer Reed.

My grandmother was diagnosed with lung cancer, it has grown from the size of a grape to the size of a golf ball in a month. She won’t do any chemo/radiation or surgery, because she wants the time she has left to be good, and the docs said she has a year left. BUT … first, if it’s grown that fast, how can she have a year? And every instance of lung cancer I’ve ever heard of has had the patients die much sooner … like Peter Jennings was given six months and lived like two weeks, and another I read about was given a year and died less than three months later. How long does she have, realistically?

Mr. Walters shares his reasons for selecting The Calypso System for his prostate cancer radiation treatment.

It’s against the law to cure any disease and this doesn’t make any sense.
Oh! I forgot about all the billions drug companies would lose.

my aunt had lung cancer, and we’re not sure if her clothes are ok to take to a clothing shelf after her wearing them after having radiation treatments.