#34652 07-31-2006 02:03 PM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) |  Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Hi Senator,
What is IGRT?? Is it a new type of radiation? Happy to hear you are not suffering the mouth sores, that was my least favorite part.
Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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#34653 08-12-2006 05:43 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 188 Likes: 1 Senior Member (100+ posts) | | Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 188 Likes: 1 | IGRT is Image Guided Radiation Therapy. If you "Google" on IGRT, you will find a number of web sites that talk about this way of guiding the IMRT daily with an image of the tumor.
I have to wonder if that was what they were doing every Monday during my Rad treatments. I would be on the table a little longer during my first treaments on Monday morning to re- target the tumors. From what I have read, IGRT is more automated than that, and in some applications is a dynamic retargeting to compensate for movement of internal structures. Pretty interesting stuff (but I always have been somewhat a geek :rolleyes: ) The technology for improvng treatment just keeps getting better.
Good Health,
Chuck
SCC Stage IV right tonsil T3N3M0. Dx 08/03. Clinical Trial:8 weeks Taxol, Carboplatin then Hydrea, 5FU, IMRT x's 48, SND, Iressa x 2yrs. Now 20 years out and thriving. Dealing with a Prostate cancer diagnosis now. Add a Bladder cancer diagnosis to all the fun.
It's always something
"Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it."
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#34654 08-13-2006 01:32 PM | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 82 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 82 | Yep, exactly what Chuck said. They took daily images of the tumor to guide the radiation. What I was told is that way it was always targeting the exact same spot as the day before.
DX on 05/01/06 with SCC of right tongue. 05/11/06 surgery-tumor 1.2cm & 4 cm clear margins & parital glos. & neck dissection with removal of 34 nodes/1 positive at 4mm)T1N1MO
35 IGRT & 3 cycles of chemo (1 cisplatin & 2 carbo-complete on 8/9/06.
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#34655 09-21-2006 12:35 AM | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 24 Member | | Member
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#34656 09-21-2006 08:38 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | He completed radiation yesterday - check out his post on the "General Board" topic.
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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