Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation

Hi 456

While I haven't had accelerated partial breast irradiation I noticed that you haven't had any replies yet so I thought I'd reply to you anyway.  

Wishing you the best of luck with your treatment and hopefully someone will be along shortly with an answer for you.

Best wishes

Daisy53

Hi  I finished my accelerated treatment a couple of weeks ago so I can't comment on the long term effects.  My treated breast is swollen and harder than the other but it's not painful just sore.  I'm massaging it a couple of times a day and it does seem to be helping the fibrosis.  The size difference is negligible at the moment, less than a cup size.  Before my surgery my breasts weren't the same size (I don't think anyone's are ) so it's not a problem for me.  I don't know what will happen in the future but I'm hoping it will soften up in time but if it doesn't I can live with it.  My first priority is to get rid of my radiotherapy tattoos which I loathe and as soon as I feel up to it I'm getting them lasered off.

Thank you Daisy.

Hi Gee

Thanks for that.  We’re you partial or whole breast?

Hi  I had a bilateral therapeutic mammoplasty.  I was lucky because even though I had a substantial 55mm tumour I had even more substantial breasts so they took the tumours out (had three in total, I have Lobular Cancer) and then put me back together.  They treat the whole breast not just where the cancer was found and they only treated my left breast, which is where my tumours were.  I do getting quite bad shooting pains in my treated breast but I know it will pass quickly so I just wait for the pain to ease.  The hardest part was the planning session where it took about 45 mins to get my position right on the machine, after that it was easy.  

I am ridiculously tired at the moment but I also have megaloblastic anemia, which isn't helping but the treatment was honestly easier than I thought.  I hope everything goes well for you.

Thanks Gee.

I seem to be the only lady getting partial breast Irradiation.  It’s a new technique where they just target the tumour bed.

Very worried, as radiotherapist at planning scan told me only part of my breast would shrink.

Im going to look very strange.