Tag: fraction
Posted on January 6, 2018
by Valerie Powell
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1) Radiation skin damage is just a sunburn While radiation skin toxicity looks like a sunburn and can often feel like a sunburn, the skin itself is not actually burned as if from a heat source. Radiation treatment is used to destroy the bad…
Category: Radiation EducationTags: burn, cancer, cancer blog, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, fraction, Healing, over, perspective, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, salivary gland tumor, side effects, skin toxicity, sunburn
Posted on October 30, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Yes…there’s a week 7 update (and yes, it’s late) but thankfully it’s not an update on week 7 of treatment. It’s week 1 of healing after 6 wretched weeks of treatment (Woo!) but also the week where there is the highest dose of radiation…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: cancer, cancer blog, clinical research, fatigue, fear, fraction, Healing, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, reflection, side effects, skin toxicity, tongue ulcers, week 7
Posted on October 23, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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I’ve somewhat avoided this post for a few days, mostly because I was too tired to think and also because I didn’t know if I could do the specialness of this day justice. October 20th was a day I had been anticipating for every…
Category: Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, family, fatigue, fear, fraction, Healing, last day, last treatment, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, reflection, sharon spencer, side effects, skin toxicity, tongue ulcers, uab, week 6
Posted on October 6, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I stayed in bed for nearly the entire day on Saturday, that this week the number of treatments left started getting smaller than the number of treatments behind me, or that my cold and allergies finally…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, concert, fear, foy vance, fraction, Healing, mom, nashville, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, sharon spencer, uab, week 4
Posted on September 25, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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This post has nothing to do with our wedding, but those pictures remind me of happier days and days where I felt beautiful, healthy, and 100% like myself. I struggled far more in the last 4 days than I care to admit, but I…
Category: Reflections, Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, clinical research, clinical trials, fear, fraction, genetics, Healing, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, side effects, uab
Posted on September 21, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Week two is coming to a close, and I’m more than thankful to have 1/3 of these treatments behind me. This week has been much easier in so many ways, but I’m noticing that the end of the week is also the hardest. The…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, fear, fraction, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, side effects, surgery, uab, week 2
Posted on September 16, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Week one of radiation is officially behind us: 5 days of masks, mouth pieces, gowns, beams, and white sheets covering hard plastic tables. 5 days of walking down the hall in a hospital gown (neked from the waist up) with my co-workers staring a…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: cancer, cancer blog, cancer treatment, clinical research, fear, fraction, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, uab, week 1
