MoatCity2017-02-20 12:58:30回复悄悄话
回复 '霞' 的评论 : You whole heart (100%) can tolerate 40Gy (4000 cGy) dose, 67% of your hear can tolerate 45Gy, and 33% can tolerate 60Gy. If they design the plan to try to avoid as much heart as possible, you can still take a lot of dose to treat the bone with radiation.
MoatCity2017-02-20 12:01:05回复悄悄话
Please don't force yourself to do physical exercise, if tumor spread to spine, your bones will be very brittle, you got to be very careful.
MoatCity2017-02-20 11:59:22回复悄悄话
If your physical condition allows, you should start chemo therapy, which will be more effective in controlling the spread of the tumor to other areas. Radiation therapy can only help with local control, chemo therapy is more systemic. PET-CT scan is critical in finding out if the tumor has gone to other areas.
Reading your blog, feel you are an active, dynamic, energetic person. Sad to learn you got this. Is there a risk factor? Did you ever smoke? or there is a second hand smoke factor in the family? Job-related environment risk factor?
MoatCity2017-02-19 14:27:59回复悄悄话
The side effect from radiation therapy is minimal, and way easier to tolerate than chemo therapy. You already had radiation (brain), and the treatment to spine would be much easier.
MoatCity2017-02-19 14:21:56回复悄悄话
If the tumor has spread to spine, radiation therapy will be needed. MRI would be a better test to find out details (better imaging modality for bone metastasis). The best approach would be to have them prescribe a PET-CT for you. The PET-CT will find out all the areas in your body the tumor has spread to. That is a standard test in the whole systematic workout in the US. You mentioned Stage IV before, a PET-CT scan would be necessary.
结果还要等到明天才能出来。
明天就要去用新药做化疗了,明天看医生怎么说吧。
我从不抽烟,我丈夫偶尔抽,但很少在我身边抽。工作单位是全部禁止吸烟的。
癌细胞已经扩散到后背的骨头上了,所以疼痛难忍。放疗就是要控制扩散的癌细胞不再f繁衍。
只是疼痛的部位离心脏很近, 恐怕放射治疗会有一定的难度。
Reading your blog, feel you are an active, dynamic, energetic person. Sad to learn you got this. Is there a risk factor? Did you ever smoke? or there is a second hand smoke factor in the family? Job-related environment risk factor?
给霞姐一个我以前写的伸展锻炼的帖子,做几下也许能感觉舒服些。
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/7072/201603/717880.html
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