Learned a new word today!!!

Multileaf Collimator!!

Got my first VMAT dose today!!

Took longer to pull my pants down.

5 minutes to position me so the lasers hit my tattoos, less than 2 minutes treatment.

Pull my pants up, and leave.

Fun times

[treedown]

Yep. It goes quick. After the biopsy its all pretty easy in my opinion.

[Hidden in reply to treedown]

The biopsy was 2017, the RALP 2 months later, this was for recurrence in lymph node.

Prostate fossa, and lymph nodes.

And my surgeon said I was cured in 2018, can I sue Kaiser for that statement??

[treedown in reply to Hidden]

You can but it doesn't mean you will win Not worth all the negative energy IMO. I didn't have a RALP so the worst I had it was the was the biopsy.

[maley2711 in reply to Hidden]

what were your damages from that "cure" statement....and do have that statement in writing...otherwise, she said, he said.

[turkeyjoe1 in reply to Hidden]

I am on treatment 15 today with 28 to follow. IMRT I was told by URO and RO a cure is possible. I don't believe them. Gleason 9, no Mets or LN involved. Easy treatment so far. Pull your pants down, lay on the table with mold under your legs. Line up the tats and zap away.

[Explorer08 in reply to Hidden]

As Dr. Myers used to say, there is no cure in prostate cancer. He went on to say the most we can hope for is durable remission.

[chefjlu in reply to Hidden]

"Cure" as used with this and many cancers is not quite the same as "cured" or the cancer is gone. It is generally a term referencing long remission or the cancer is no longer detectable in activity. Continued monitoring for a "flare up" or "recurrence" is necessary.

[chefjlu in reply to chefjlu]

This helps explain: healthline.com/health/prost...

[Hidden]

RALP was ok, surgery Monday AM, home Tuesday AM.

No pain whatsoever.

[groundhogy]

but do you know what a multi leaf collimnator does?

[Hidden in reply to groundhogy]

yup I was shown.

[ADTMan]

I've heard from a few people that they pulled their pants down prior to radiation treatment but I always got undressed and put on a gown. Didn't you have a plastic mold put over you after they lined you up with the tattoos?

[Hidden in reply to ADTMan]

that’s for head radiation

They use foam blocks to keep you from moving./rolling After lining up the laser beams to your tattoos

Pants down below butt, pull shirt up.

[Derf4223]

You forgot to mention the very full bladder requirement. Before zapping the IMRT takes a CT scan and the techs are 100% aware of your bladder fullness, Being full gets increasingly more uncomfortable from the 2 week point. I hope it works for you.

[Hidden]

they are also aware of rectum volume!!

[Derf4223 in reply to Hidden]

The radiology techs are aware of everything to do with your pelvis. They always told me to cover my privates when pulling my pants lower, which seemed utterly pointless given the CT to come. I once asked them to show me my CT and confirmed it showed rectum, bladder and everything else.

[Derf4223]

Another IMRT term to learn -- linac.

[Hidden in reply to Derf4223]

linear accelerator

[j-o-h-n]

Multileaf Collimator is what Adam was wearing when he first met Eve and warned her "Stand back I don't how big this thing gets"...

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Tuesday 05/09/2023 8:35 PM DST