How long does a radiation treatment last for a cancer patient?

Question

My brother already went through chemo and now he has to start radiation, the doctor told him it would probably be around 15 treatments that he would need. He has lung cancer. I would like to know how long each treatment takes?

Answer 1

It depends on the type, stage, grade, coverage, and location of the cancer. Radiation is used to pinpoint specific locations and can take minutes or an hour to complete depending on the severity of the case. Whole body radiation can take some time. If you mean in terms of how many treatments . . that also will vary from a few days to weeks and up to a month. It depends.

Answer 2

Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.

Answer 3

if you are talking about each daily treatment, he will be in and out of the treatment center in about 15-20 minutes. the first day of treatment will be longer because they will have to take xrays to verify that the treatment area is covering everything that the doctor wants covered. the doctor then approves the films and they sometimes will start the 1st treatment that same day (just depends on how they do their new starts in that center) the actual treatment only takes a few minutes.
if you are talking about the whole course of radiation that can be anywhere between 1 treatment and 8 weeks of treatment-depending on the dose prescribed.

Answer 4

time tells this as they observe the x-rays to see the progression goodluck honey