Radiation Boost anyone?

Ginny_B

Mom will be finishing her rads and chemo around Dec 12 (a day after I get back from Israel). They will start Radiation Boost when the current Rads cease.

She will swallow a lead and they will radiate from inside the esophagus to "get" the nodes that are surrounding the original tumor. It is unconfirmed if those nodes are cancer, but they will treat them as if.

Has anyone had this done? I would like to know what to expect. Is it worse than normal Rads? Will her horrible radiation cough get worse?

She will have 4 treatments once a week. (Sure beats daily Rads!) I am also not sure if the Oncologist will want to continue the chemo (5FU, .03ml drip/hr) through the course of the Radiation Boost.

Ginny