 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Patsy, My experience was almost the same as Anita's husband, except I had only 2 chemotherapy sessions, three weeks apart. It is preferable to get the radiation first in case you get sick. I traveled 60 miles a day to go to RT at a comprehensive cancer center. The ER vists I made (twice) were always for rehydration which is just getting hooked up to an IV for a couple of hours -any ER should be able to do that. If you are in fact going to a CCC then it will be on the NCCN list of member institutions. Going to a "Cancer Center" should be almost as good. CCC: http://www.nccn.org/members/network.asp CC: http://www3.cancer.gov/cancercenters/description.html
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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