I think that any of you who are suggesting that once a person and his doctor are off on a course of treatment, in this case conventional radiation, that you are not helping here and doing a disservice to the original poster by suggesting that MIDSTREAM he approach his doctor with the opinions of a bunch of lay people who do not know his individual situation or his doctors thought process, to change his course of treatment. When did you guys get your MD's? I must have missed that part. This creates doubts that are not necessary at this point in the patients mind. What are you people thinking?????

You want to suggest BEFORE someone enters treatment that he ask his doctors about IMRT and the benefits in HIS case, do so. But what is going on here is off base, and if any of you thought about what you are creating in this person's emotional state with new potential doubts, you would realize that it is potentially damaging.

As was mentioned he is at a CCC. Maybe some of you might consider that given the little information you have to work with about this patient, his doctors, his condition, and any reasoning behind the decision making, that he is at a qualified CCC, that you don't have enough information to work with. Our purpose here is to offer help. That help is based on our own UNIQUE experiences, and those damn sure do not apply universally to every other cancer patient out there. Suggesting , by inference to your own high end experiences, that he may not be getting the BEST treatment out there is just BS.

Gail if you have be assigned a radiation physicist, I would like you to email me his name. I would like to have a discussion with him/ her.