Time scale of radiotherapy

Hi Star68  the planning scan is to get dad ready for the radiotherapy. He will be taken into the radiotherapy room, and he will be positioned on the radiotherapy bed where they will “map” out where the radiation needs to go. It is very much like an x-ray machine, and dad will just need to lay very still whilst the machine moves around him. The beams are very precise, so they place little tattoo dots on the area that needs zapping, so that each treatment they can line him up accurately. This will be the longest appointment, radiotherapy itself takes minutes. You start the treatment very quickly after this, some the very next day, so Monday could very easily be his start date. 

Hi Chelle

Thanks for coming back to me.  He's had radiotherapy before for his prostate so he's aware of what it entails but we have a holiday booked for the 23rd Aug to 6th September and they've given him 15th August for the planning scan.  I'd read that he may start treatment anything from a few days after this to up to 3 weeks.  Anyway they've given him a start date of 5th September - the day before we're due back we've asked if they can work around it as it's so close and they've given him a start date 3 days later . If he'd been given the following week we would have stayed home and got him started then but they didn't ️

Hi Star68  that is good to hear they were able to move the date. Hope it all goes well for your dad.