Follow up treatment

FormerMember over 5 years ago

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Hello all,

My mother recently had a full hysterectomy after being diagnosed with Stage 1B endometrial cancer. She is meeting the surgeon on Friday for the final results and to discuss the best way forward etc, and I just wondered what the most likely outcome will be? Obviously every individual case is different, but is the most likely option a course of external radiotherapy, given her stage of diagnosis? She is recovering very well from the op and we are obviously reluctant to move into a long cycle of adjunctive treatment. I do know they removed two of her lymph nodes during the op to test if the cancer had spread.

Thanks!

FormerMember over 5 years ago

I was stage 1B and had brachytherapy which is internal radiation. It's delivered in two ways at my hospital, either slow so it's normally spread over 15 hours or so twice as an in patient or fast (which in my case was 4 occasions)15 mins each time as an outpatient.I was able to chose which option I preferred. I didn't have any external radiotherapy or chemo so don't know the timescale for those.

TeddysMum over 5 years ago

I was grade 1, stage 1b too. I had a hysterectomy followed by 2 of the long 14 hour brachytherapy sessions. At the time I was given the option whether to have brachytherapy or not and I decided to go ahead. I was told that as far as the surgeon could tell all cancer was removed by the hysterectomy and the brachytherapy was "belt and braces" to reduce the chances of a recurrence. I decided anything I could do to improve my future chances was worth it, but I think that has to be a personal decision based on what everyone's own team advises.

FormerMember over 5 years ago in reply to TeddysMum

Thank you :)

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