Treatments have acute, and long term side effects, lasting more than 3 months. The problem with that some of these long term side effects, even short term, is that they occur in other illnesses, conditions, as noted, can be a result from medication, increase as we age, so proving what is associated with our cancer or from treatment side effects is difficult to prove, as I have found even for myself, and wouldn't really change matters much as far as my symptoms, treatments, but only my curiosity, maybe help others in the future.

One thing I have found with any of my complaints of pain, numbness, my doctors want to rule out cancer, which is usually the first priority, so they're always poking and prodding. For example, the Brachial Plexopathy, a result from high dose radiation to level V, occurs in other things too. Anyway, my neurologist sent me for MRI to rule out cancer, and being it still persists, she wanted to know when my next neck PET/CT scan is, although most likely radiation related, she said lets not take it for granted it is, and not a recurrence, just to be safe. Another example is my jaw pain, which worsened the last few weeks, so my oral surgeon did an oral CT scan to help rule out cancer, check on the ORN, if it was worsening.

I hope this helps, and good luck with everything.