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Radiotherapy Cancer Treatment

A very surreal day was had on Thursday 22 September 2016, when Ryan spent a day at Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff in their Mould Room where he had his personal mask made for his impending 5-week course of radiotherapy (RT). Ryan then had to endure another CT scan to mark the mask up for the lasers to do their thing. He will be having 50gy in 25 fractions. One session every day Monday to Friday for 5 weeks on lymph tissue in his tonsil and throat areas.  Side effects will be his ability to swallow. Loss of taste buds. Salivary glands dry up, sickness and extreme fatigue, all of which will begin around 2 weeks into the treatment and last for 3-6 weeks after treatment has finished.  He is also having RT first and then Chemotherapy which I understand is usually the other way around so not clear on why the change is happening. I believe it is because he is not well enough to begin IV chemo and has been on steroid chemo up to now in an attempt to build him up a bit, but I do not see that