Hi!
To start with - I'm 27 year old female, diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma stage 2a. I've passed 6 cycles of ABVD chemo, after-chemo PET showed Deauville score 1-2.
My oncologist advised me to undergo radiation therapy to make sure we did everything possible to kill the disease.
But doctor from the Radiation therapy department checked my PET result and told that it would be better to wait for 3-4 months, do another PET and then proceed with radiation (if needed). Because I'm young female and infected lymph nodes are in chest and close to my heart.
Have anyone experienced such a long delay between chemo and radiation? Can't it be too long, so cancer cells can start growing and become too active to be killed by radiation?
