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radiation burns to neck

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  • Larrykins
    Larrykins CSN Member Posts: 38 Member
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    Laser
    Here in Luxembourg they gave me a new treatment with a red laser which they put over me for 20 mins a day for the first week and then twice a week after that. After each session my neck would be bandaged for a few hours with Flammazine cream under it (a silver-based anti-burn cream). After 2 days of treatment it was already better. after a week all redness had gone and up to the end of my treatment I never had another problem.
    I thought at the time that it was a kind of miracle as I worried alot about the burns after seeing pictures of others under treatment.
    Never heard about this anywhere else though. In my opinion it should be available wherever radiation therapy is carried out.
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