Barb,
Like others have mentioned, the Silver Sufadine cream helped heal the open wounds very quickly for me. The hospital also gave me a gel-like second skin product to keep the area moist. It WAS excruciatingly painful to get the stuff off before radiation exposures, but I kept the wound dressed from just after my last exposure of the day until just before my first of the next day (my treatment involved twice-a-day rad treatments).

The silver sulfadine helped, but when the wound is oozing/bleeding, you need something to keep it in place. The gel dressings were just the ticket. The product my hospital was using is called Vigilon.
Hope this helps,

Good Health,

Chuck