Is it ok 2 be treated wid radiation therapy after chemotherapy?

Yes, it is OK. Treatment plans differ from person to person. Your doctor has worked with your surgeon, oncologist, pathologist and dosomitrist to tailor your treatment to your type of cancer, the stage you are in, (how advanced), your history, age and health, and how susceptible the tumor is to different types of drugs and treatments. All of this goes into an equation they use to determine the best course of treatment for you. No two cancers are alike, and no two people are either.

There is no magic bullet cure for cancer, and the treatments do kill healthy cells as well as cancer cells. Some people with advanced stages of cancer or poor health may die no matter what the treatment.

It is best to talk to your doctor about your plan. If you have questions or fears, be open and tell him. The more you know, the better your outcome will be.

yes but you start to lose the "th" on the end of words like "with"

Yes, this is a common way to fight specific kinds of cancers. especially if they are tumors.

Yes, radiation is often used in conjunction with drugs to fight cancer. Sometimes it is used prior to surgery to shrink the tumor, and other reasons. It is often used after drugs to eradicate all the the cancerous cells.
It all depends on your doctor. He or she has to make the decision as to what is best. By that I mean drugs, radiation or both.

I am not a doctor just a lay man (woman), but I have seen three cases (friends), who have suffered doing that.. But there was no other way.. for them to live longer!

It is perfectly OK to be treared with radiotherapy and chaemotherapy. The best person to decide on which to be given is the oncophysician. If radiotherapy is to be given, the radiation therapist is the competent person. In asddition, surgery also forms an imp part of oncotherapy. One should not forget adaptation in society by the patient.

It's with what ever your Doctor thinks is best. People have been known to take both treatments. And as with most health problems ,it is always wise to get a second option

Pancreatic cancer, which generally has a very poor prognosis, is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related deaths. It killed many people in the world last year, in many countries, such as america.A large study recently demonstrated that patients who underwent surgical removal of the pancreas, who were given both radiation therapy and chemotherapy afterwards, derived improved survival.When radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy are administered to a person who has undergone an operation to remove all the visible cancer, it is termed adjuvant therapy. An example of the routine use of adjuvant radiation therapy and chemotherapy is that of a woman who has had a lumpectomy to remove a malignant breast tumor.Investigators reviewed the records of 472 people who had complete surgical removal of the pancreas. All had negative margins, meaning a rim of normal tissue surrounded the cancer cells. Patients whose disease spread beyond the pancreas or whose disease could not be removed entirely were excluded from the study. Also excluded were patients who had a slow growing variant of pancreatic cancer.

At the end of the review, the records of 454 patients were eligible for analysis. A comparison was then made of those who received adjuvant radiation therapy and chemotherapy concurrently after surgery versus those who did not.
patients who received further chemotherapy after their course of adjuvant concomitant radiation therapy and chemotherapy seemed to have even better survival; 61 percent and 31 percent at two and five years, respectively. However, only 28 of 454 patients received this regimen, so it is premature to draw conclusions from this limited sized population.

these is what i came up after talked with my friend, who recently studying medical(some subject based on radiation therapy), in bangalore.

if there is any fault in my answer, its because i dont have the time to culture about this question for long, so consider my thought about ur question.

Yes.
At least, it worked that way for me.
Best wishes

What is radiotherapy?

Radiotherapy is the use of x-rays and similar rays (such as electrons) to treat disease.

Since the discovery of x-rays over one hundred years ago, radiation has been used more and more in medicine, both to help with diagnosis (by taking pictures with x-rays), and as a treatment (radiotherapy). While radiation obviously has to be used very carefully, doctors and radiographers have a lot of experience in its use in medicine.

Many people with cancer will have radiotherapy as part of their treatment. This can be given either as external radiotherapy from outside the body using x-rays or from within the body as internal radiotherapy.

Radiotherapy works by destroying the cancer cells in the treated area. Although normal cells are also sometimes damaged by the radiotherapy, they can repair themselves.

Radiotherapy treatment can cure some cancers and can reduce the chance of a cancer coming back after surgery. It may be used to reduce cancer symptoms.

Some people find that the side effects are very mild and that they just feel tired during their course of radiotherapy treatment.
Why radiotherapy is given
Curative treatment

Radiotherapy is often given with the aim of destroying a tumour and curing the cancer. When radiotherapy is given in this way it is described as radical radiotherapy.

Radiotherapy may be used on its own or may be given before or after surgery or chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is the use of anti-cancer drugs to destroy cancer cells. If radiotherapy and chemotherapy are given at the same time, this treatment is known as chemoradiotherapy.

For some types of curative radiotherapy treatment, you may need to go to the hospital each weekday for between two and seven weeks. In this situation, a small dose of radiotherapy is given each time. This is because as well as damaging cancer cells, radiotherapy can also cause damage to healthy cells in the treatment area. If a very high dose of treatment was given all in one go, it could cause too much damage to the healthy cells, so small doses are given to allow the healthy cells to recover in between.
Palliative treatment

Sometimes, when it is not possible to cure a cancer, radiotherapy may be given to relieve symptoms - for example, to lessen pain. This is called palliative treatment. Lower doses of external radiotherapy are given than for curative treatment, usually over a shorter period of time (sometimes just a single treatment).
Total body irradiation

This type of radiotherapy is used much less commonly than the other types of radiotherapy, but is often given to patients who are having a bone marrow or stem cell transplant as part of their treatment. A large single dose, or six to eight smaller doses, of radiation is given to the whole body to destroy the cells of the bone marrow. Very high doses of chemotherapy are also given. This treatment is followed by giving new bone marrow given by a drip into a vein, to replace the bone marrow that has been destroyed. This type of radiotherapy is described in the section on stem cell and bone marrow transplants.
Research - clinical trials for radiotherapy treatments

Cancer research trials are carried out to try to find new and better treatments for cancer. Trials that are carried out on patients are known as clinical trials. When you are given radiotherapy it may be as part of a clinical trial and this will be explained to you.

Clinical trials may be carried out to:

* test new treatments, such as new ways of giving radiotherapy, new chemotherapy drugs, gene therapy or cancer vaccines
* look at new combinations of existing treatments, or change the way they are given, in order to make them more effective or to reduce side effects
* compare the effectiveness of drugs used for symptom control
* find out how cancer treatments work
* see which treatments are the most cost-effective.
* Trials are the only reliable way to find out if a different operation, type of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or other treatment is better than what is already available.

Taking part in a trial

You may be asked to take part in a treatment research trial. There can be many benefits in doing this. Trials help to improve knowledge about cancer and the development of new treatments. You will also be carefully monitored during and after the study. Usually, several hospitals around the country take part in these trials.

The process of clinical trials is described in more detail in a separate section on cancer research trials.

Blood and tumour samples

Many blood samples and bone marrow or tumour biopsies may be taken to find out what is wrong with you. Most of these are needed to make the right diagnosis. You may be asked for your permission to use some of your samples for research into cancer. Some samples may be frozen and stored for future use, when new research techniques become available.

The research may be carried out at the hospital where you are treated, or it may be at another hospital. This type of research takes a long time, so you are unlikely to hear the results. The samples will, however, be used to increase knowledge about the causes of cancer and its treatment. This research will, hopefully, improve the outlook for future patients.
Where do you have your radiotherapy treatment?

Radiotherapy equipment is very complex and needs a lot of space, as well as support from specially trained staff, so radiotherapy departments tend to be in the larger regional and teaching hospitals. Often you will have your initial cancer treatment (such as surgery) at your local hospital and will then be referred to your nearest specialist cancer treatment hospital for your radiotherapy treatment.

Radiotherapy departments have varying types of equipment and are organised according to local needs, so they are run in different ways. While most of the information in this section is fairly general, and will apply to most departments, you may find that there are some differences at the hospital where you are treated.

You can usually have external radiotherapy as an out-patient, but if you are unwell, or having chemotherapy at the same time, you may need to stay in hospital and will be taken to the radiotherapy department each day from the ward.

If you are having internal radiotherapy, you may have to stay in hospital for a few days.


General information on radiotherapy

This section has been written to give you information about radiotherapy. We hope that it will answer some of the questions that you may have about this treatment.

If you have any further questions relating to your treatment, please don't hesitate to ask the doctor, nurse or radiographer looking after you. It is important to talk to someone who is familiar with your treatment, as radiotherapy differs from one person to another. Other people you meet may be having different treatments, even if they have a similar type of cancer.

THE TWO TREATMENTS COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER IN MANY SITUATIONS.