Hi-

I would like to hear when most of you were scheduled for your post-treatment check-up.

My mother's rad onc wants to wait a month for CT and check-up. This seems a bit long to me. On the other hand, her pulmonoloigst (she has a suspected primary lung cancer also) will be seeing her the last day of treatments with a CT and discussion of what we should do next. That's what I like to hear.

Anyway, just curious as to when others had their first follow-up. And, yes I am aware that even though the delivery of radiation is complete, there is residual radiation that continues working. But I find it hard to believe that this residual makes that much difference in determining the success of the treatments.

Thanks.

Cynthia

Hi,
My sister had a 2 month wait(to heal from the radiation) cancer of tonsils. She just had the check-up, xrays last week and so far so good. She is cancer free. It seemed like a very long wait to me also, but her oncologist said that the area that was radiated is like mush and needs to heal before making an accurate diagnosis.

Cynthia......My first check up was exactly one month after I finished RAD, and I believe that appointment was with my Radiology Onoclogist and shortly thereafter I saw my ENT. After that, I was scheduled for a quarterly CT scan, a visit to both my ENT and Onocologist along with quarterly blood work done. After five long years they just gave me the OK for a chest xray every six months and at that time blood work drawn and a visit with my onocologist. However, I still see my ENT on a quarterly basis. Hope that helps. Glad to hear your Mom is doing OK! I look forward to reading your posts just to see how she is coming along. Sincerely, Donna

Thanks ladies. I wanted to make sure that my mother's oncologist wasn't being lax.

Congrats Donna on your 5 years! Glad to hear you are doing so well!

Cynthia