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I have a friend going into hospital next week who is having a tumour zapped with 252 rays of radiotherapy called Gamma Knife Surgery ....... I understand everything that is going to happen but what I dont understand is ...... how can you have that amount of zapping (and I am assuming its like intense lasering) without feeling it as I would imagine it would be like burning the tumour ........ anybody have an opinion on this or any other radiotherapy? ........ why is there not a serious confused smiley? |
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"I have a friend going into hospital next week who is having a tumour zapped with 252 rays of radiotherapy called Gamma Knife Surgery ....... I understand everything that is going to happen but what I dont understand is ...... how can you have that amount of zapping (and I am assuming its like intense lasering) without feeling it as I would imagine it would be like burning the tumour ........ anybody have an opinion on this or any other radiotherapy? ........ why is there not a serious confused smiley? "
I don't know if this might help:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SIOaJ7lWQ
Its a PR-ish type film about the patients perspective of GKS |
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"I have a friend going into hospital next week who is having a tumour zapped with 252 rays of radiotherapy called Gamma Knife Surgery ....... I understand everything that is going to happen but what I dont understand is ...... how can you have that amount of zapping (and I am assuming its like intense lasering) without feeling it as I would imagine it would be like burning the tumour ........ anybody have an opinion on this or any other radiotherapy? ........ why is there not a serious confused smiley? "
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My understanding is that the 'beams' all come from different directions, so most of your body gets exposed to tiny, harmless doses, but the beams all intersect at a point inside the tumour, where the dose is massive. Presumably you won't have any nerves inside a tumour so no, you wouldn't feel it. |
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"I have a friend going into hospital next week who is having a tumour zapped with 252 rays of radiotherapy called Gamma Knife Surgery ....... I understand everything that is going to happen but what I dont understand is ...... how can you have that amount of zapping (and I am assuming its like intense lasering) without feeling it as I would imagine it would be like burning the tumour ........ anybody have an opinion on this or any other radiotherapy? ........ why is there not a serious confused smiley? "
Best to google Gamma knife surgery..concise and layman friendly |
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"My understanding is that the 'beams' all come from different directions, so most of your body gets exposed to tiny, harmless doses, but the beams all intersect at a point inside the tumour, where the dose is massive. Presumably you won't have any nerves inside a tumour so no, you wouldn't feel it."
ok that makes sense and I think I had forgotten that tumours dont have nerves d'oh but then probably tooo wrapped up in the whole process probably  |
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Radiotherapy is pretty brutal, for instance if you get it on your cheek you can have burns on the back of your neck as it just blasts through your whole head. (yes your brain melts a bit)
It's very invasive and very painful. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Where does it go when zapped?
Does it get vaporized? 
(I always understood the above to be a confused/perplexed smilie)"
It doesnt go anywhere and it doesnt shrink either ........ the zapping is done hopefully to stop it growing ... and that will be seen over a 3 year period ......... if it carries on growing after the 3 years then its surgery ............ some get a second dose of zapping but thats normally for the older generation as no one knows the impact of lots of zapping ... and thank u about the bemused smiley xx |
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"Radiotherapy is pretty brutal, for instance if you get it on your cheek you can have burns on the back of your neck as it just blasts through your whole head. (yes your brain melts a bit)
It's very invasive and very painful."
Not Gammma knife surgery |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I have a friend going into hospital next week who is having a tumour zapped with 252 rays of radiotherapy called Gamma Knife Surgery ....... I understand everything that is going to happen but what I dont understand is ...... how can you have that amount of zapping (and I am assuming its like intense lasering) without feeling it as I would imagine it would be like burning the tumour ........ anybody have an opinion on this or any other radiotherapy? ........ why is there not a serious confused smiley?
I don't know if this might help:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SIOaJ7lWQ
Its a PR-ish type film about the patients perspective of GKS"
thank u for this ........ have seen most of it before ....... from the hospitals information |
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"Radiotherapy is pretty brutal, for instance if you get it on your cheek you can have burns on the back of your neck as it just blasts through your whole head. (yes your brain melts a bit)
It's very invasive and very painful.
Not Gammma knife surgery "
Gamma Knife surgery isnt because it is within 0.01 mm precise .......... its fascinating to see how they build the programme of treatment and zapping to each individual tumour |
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"Radiotherapy is pretty brutal, for instance if you get it on your cheek you can have burns on the back of your neck as it just blasts through your whole head. (yes your brain melts a bit)
It's very invasive and very painful."
would you like to back this up with some evidence?
Family member has just had 5 weeks radiotherapy and the most traumatic part was the travelling. |
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"Radiotherapy is pretty brutal, for instance if you get it on your cheek you can have burns on the back of your neck as it just blasts through your whole head. (yes your brain melts a bit)
It's very invasive and very painful.
would you like to back this up with some evidence?
Family member has just had 5 weeks radiotherapy and the most traumatic part was the travelling."
My evidence is above. I was talking about my own Mother. |
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