Cyber Knife radiation adventure.

Hi Everyone

Thought I would relate some of my feeling and finding thru my on going adventure with Radiation and cancer.

I have just started my very interesting cyber knife radiation regiment with only a mear 36 visits remaining. Looks like for prostrate cancer it’s very rudimentary and rather anticlimactic. The Radiation emitting machine is interesting in both size and uses a laser beams tracking system. It uses the lasers and gold marker placed precisely in your body for the machine to set exactly in the same location for each visit. In this way you have a systematic attack on the cancerous area on each and every session, There for acting as one huge radiation bombardment on the tumor. I’m pretty excited and also apprehensive about the concept and predicted results. This appears to me as sort of a leap of faith, Because after using radiation I lose other avenues against my particular type of cancer. Sure I still have hormone treatment but surgery is not an option any longer. hopefully it will work as expected or at least it will offer us more time. And unfortunately time is the thing I’m chasing. obviously we all no this. So for now this is what I have observed. To be continued in two months.
Take care my fellow fighter.
Ed

‘A leap of faith”—sounds like every treatment we go through until there is a “cure.” We need to keep chasing time because new meds keep coming to market, and we’re all chasing time. Rad sounds routine for you, but I know the inconvenience of so many rad onc treatments. Thanks for the update—stay strong (and patient), my Brother! B

Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:15:45 AM by Bill Curry