I'm going to erase the above post because the typos were so bad

Paul, Have you had surgery already? There is some data out showing that there is a higher liklihood of recrrene if the delay between surgery adn the LAST day of radiation is more than 100 days. This is especially true if you are Stage 3 or 4 and have a couple of other risk factors.

Now, in this paper that reports the data, none of the patients had concurrent chemo--are you going to have that? Also, it was done just looking at several years of patient trecords, no random assignment of patients to be in an early radiation or late radiation group or anything (can't imagine that would be able to be done in this case since it would hardly be ethical) and the sample sizes of the different groups were vastly different so all that's to say I don't think the 100 day thing is some sort of written in stone rule. As Gail pointed out, it may be more directly related to how aggressive the particular cancer is.

Still, you may not have much time to get in somewhere else and still gt IMRT in a timely manner--and time is of the essence. I would be quite annpoyed, if I were you, if they are moving you off IMRT just because of convenience. They should have told you earlier if that was an issue so you had the max amount of time to find another place.