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Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 837 | Andrea,
My radiation started about 5-6 weeks after surgery, so there was definitely still healing going on around my incisions (although I don't recall that there were any sutures left). The radiation didn't seem to have any adverse effect on the surgery sites.
From everything I've read here, it seems that when radiation is scheduled to follow surgery, it is generally done fairly soon afterward (4-6 weeks).
Cathy
Tongue SCC (T2M0N0), poorly differentiated, diagnosed 3/89, partial glossectomy and neck dissection 4/89, radiation from early June to late August 1989
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