Radiotherapy side effects

FormerMember
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I’m just wondering what other people’s experience of radiotherapy to the pelvic area has been. My mum was diagnosed with secondary bone cancer about 6 weeks ago. She has a large met in her sacral area and spots on various bits of her skeleton. She had 5 sessions of radiotherapy to the sacral area last week and since then her pain has increased a lot, she now also has neck pain that she didnt have before and since yesterday she has had ongoing diarrhoea. My sister called the nurse at the breast clinic today for advice but they didn’t call back (which is just standard practice it would seem) . Just not sure if we assume this is all normal side effects or if we should seek ooh advice.  

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi LizzyLou welcome to the forum and sorry to hear how things are for your mum. 

    If I was you I would seek out some medical advice from Out of Hours and at least that may be able to put your  mind at rest for now. xxx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to FormerMember

    Thank you, she is being assessed in hospital now. Hopefully they get her sorted.