Radiation
Today (May 19) I have an appointment with the radiation doctor at the LUMC. I am afraid. Not so much against the conversation but what awaits me during radiation therapy. The pulmonologist has indicated that it will be about 15 to 20 radiation sessions and that I will get pain with swallowing because my esophagus will also be irradiated. Not really something I'm looking forward to. During the conversation with the radiation doctor, he explains the entire process. They removed the tumor by a minimum margin of up to 2 mm of clean tissue all around. Preferably they have 10 mm of clean tissue, but that was not possible given the location. Because the margin is so small, they want to give radiation therapy as a precaution. During radiation, all tissue is damaged, good and bad cells. A good cell takes about 6 hours to recover, a bad cell much longer. By every day radiation, the bad cells have no time to recover and will eventually die. The number of radiations is estimated to be somewha...