I need a reminder to help me tell the difference between traditional radiation therapy and proton therapy so here’s a short video that I captured from the Proton Institute website.
My first week of therapy was in the yellow gantry using double scattering technology. Next week I’m in the green gantry which will use pencil beam technology.
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Thanks! Really helps me to understand the difference!! ❤️
I had radiation therapy but it did have some targeted capacity. Side effects for me was really not noticeable; for others, they did have tiredness, eating disturbances, and aches and pains.
I had 36 sessions of external beam radiation after my cancer returned. No problems until 5 years later when bladder cancer, probably from the previous radiation, was detected.
They still need a lot of research on long-term effects.