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The Cancer Council Art Award winning film! This film was made while Jesse was having Radiation Treatment at Peter MacCallum. In the style of “The Wonder Years”. Voice over by William TenEyck.

Luke’s radiation treatment on 2/19/2009. This was his 15th treatment, the halfway point. This treatment is administered by the Cancer Therapy and Research Center (CTRC) which is part of the Univerity of Texas Health and Science Center in San Antonio.

Rachel Minkove celebrates her final radiation treatment after a year-long battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Read more about Rachel’s experience and the end-of-treatment bell ringing ceremony in Johns Hopkins’ monthly publication, “Dome” www.hopkinsmedicine.org

Radiation therapy is not painful while it is administered; however, side effects which people may obtain from the therapy can be the reason for discomfort or pain.

Many persons who have cancer need to have the therapy. In reality, almost sixty percent of people who have cancer get therapy through radiation. Sometimes, this therapy happens to be the only treatment needed by the cancer patients.

Radiation therapy is utilized to cure cancer. It may be used to slow down the growth of cancer cells, stop and treat cancer. It can be used also to reduce symptoms. If cure is not probable, radiation can be utilized to shrink tumor cells to decrease pressure. The therapy used in this means may cure problems like pain or it may avoid troubles such as loss of bowels and bladder control and blindness.

This therapy is frequently used together with other treatments of cancer. The following are some of the examples:

- Radiation therapy as well as surgery – it may be provided before, after or during surgical procedure. Doctors may utilize radiation to minimize the size of the tumor prior to surgery, or they can use this following the surgery to eradicate each cancer cells which stay behind. Sometimes, radiation is provided during surgery in order that the it goes toward the cancer cells without passing the skin. This procedure is called intra-operative radiation.

- Radiation therapy as well as chemotherapy – radiation can be given before, after or during chemotherapy. During or before chemotherapy, radiation may shrink the tumor for the chemotherapy to work better. Occasionally, chemotherapy is administered to assist radiation therapy to work better. After chemotherapy is finished, radiation treatment may be utilized to kill any tumor cells that remain.

One of many. Edited for time. I am only stage t1c and will only need 25 sessions.

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?

An update how how radiation is going so far..

I was wondering if anyone had links for side effects or could tell me side effects of it? My brother has an abdominal cancer but its spread to other areas and their doing radiation treatment to a tumor on his hip. He can even walk or barely move now after 4 treatments.

The first few hours after getting the radiation treatment. No problems so far!

I was diagnosed with testicular cancer on Oct. 22, 2009, and had surgery on Oct. 23. I began my radiation therapy today, Nov. 16, and have begun recording my progress with these video logs. Today was radiation treatment 1 of 20.