Re: Consequences of delaying uterine cancer treatment ?

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J <macyinno@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 :

So this mean the delay of the radiation therapy for a few months is not
significant in stopping the possible spread of the cancer. Especially since
she is already 80 yrs. old, and the cancer probably took decades to
establish ?

There's no possibility of that. As I explained in my original post: this is
degenerating S.Africa. Don't you watch CNN ? With the ratio of med.
service to patient load, they have to just herd them through like cattle.

She did find out however that the 2nd. [radiation] machine is now fixed.

Sorry, I don't get CNN (no satellite nor broadband/cable service).

come post on sci.med.diseases.cancer

Stage II Uterine cancer - was 12 weeks post-op as of Sept 11/06 He was
estimating 20 weeks delay for RT. ("which was 8 weeks after vaginal
bleeding started.")
So they still have enough scalpels it seems..
Normally these things get discussed at interdiscipl. meetings and
treatment coordinated before the operation..

Assuming 'uterine' cancer means endometrial cancer and not cervical
cancer in this case, she should normally have received combined
tele/brachytherapy starting about a month or so after the operation.
Depending if it was an R0 or R1 resection, the LN-status, and the
grading a decision needs to be made on whether to still treat her or
not. If these parameters were ok (read R0 /negative/G1) its probably
not worth it, go for 'watch and wait'. She has about 7% more chance of
local recurrence should she live long enough to get it. No significant
effect on her survival is to be expected.
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madiba
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