Treatment question.

Yes, definitely. I don't know about the organs you mentioned, because typically there is substantial blood flow to those areas and chemo is quite effective. I know that for head & neck cancers (H&N) such as glossopharangeal cancers, the standard protocol is combined chemo and radiation or "chemorad", which is chemo typically on Monday followed by same day radiation and every weekday thereafter, and repeated every week. You may have seen images of the mesh "mask" that is used to immobilize the head and shoulders for targeted radiation.

For my wife's spinal lymphoma she got one large dose of radiation directly to the primary tumor, then five months of chemo every three weeks. This is typical for DLBCL. Also combined chemo and radiation are often used for breast cancer, though typically not simultaneously.

I've been out of the business for years but as far as I know just about any part of the body can be radiated if the hoped for benefit outweighs the risk. For example, if a person had a single met in the liver or lung and nowhere else radiation could be considered. This would be especially true if the person had not had a recurrence for a long time and showed up with a single met. Chemo of almost any type potentiates radiation effects (both positive and negative) because it impairs a tumor's ability to repair its DNA (and some types of chemo impairs the normal tissue's ability to repair also). This is part of the reason that ADT is given prior to RT since there is evidence that ADT impairs prostate cancer cells repair mechanisms.

Thanks Guys!!
Two weeks from today (July 2nd) I have my Axumin (fluciclovine F 18) PET scan.
I don't want mets, but this will likely show us where they are at, and so we can maybe finally try to kill this MOFO.

When I had SRT in 2010 the pre-treatment imaging showed an enlarged lymph node. The MO targeted that node with a portion of each daily radiation treatment, but for only 20 or so days, not the full 36 days of prostate radiation. That was, in his judgment, the maximum he could target at that node without risking damage to adjacent organs.

Thanks Prato!!

Seven more days, this has been the longest two weeks in history. They changed it from 6/28 to 7/2.