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07/25/2010 05:09
Adriannot registered
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07/25/2010 05:09
Adriannot registered
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Response to radiotherapy for DD
I completed my first 5 days of RT for nodules in my right palm almost 2 weeks ago now. I am due for a further course in two months time. So far nodules feel a little softer and hand feels slightly less tight but no dramatic changes. Can people who have had RT for early DD share with me how much their disease changed after the first and second course of RT sessions and what the time course of the changes was after the sessions. I am getting concerned that I should have had more improvement by now but maybe I am just impatient!
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07/25/2010 11:32
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07/25/2010 11:32
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Re: Response to radiotherapy for DD
@Adrian:
I completed my first 5 days of RT for nodules in my right palm almost 2 weeks ago now. I am due for a further course in two months time. So far nodules feel a little softer and hand feels slightly less tight but no dramatic changes. Can people who have had RT for early DD share with me how much their disease changed after the first and second course of RT sessions and what the time course of the changes was after the sessions. I am getting concerned that I should have had more improvement by now but maybe I am just impatient!
I had RT on left hand and left foot...I had RT November 2009. My RT was done over the course of two weeks, ten sessions total, Monday through Friday of each week. The improvement started right after RT and continued for months afterwards.
Before RT I had two marble size , very hard nodules on bottom of left foot. On my left hand palm I had multiple nodules, a very small thin cord running from the base of the index finger to the middle joint of that finger. I had constant itching and burning, and because of the tighness across the palm of the hand I couldn't open the hand very wide.
Right after RT the improvement started and continued for months. The nodules on both hand and foot are much smaller and much softer. The itching and burning has stopped and I can open the hand much wider. I truly believe that RT has stopped, for now, the progression of the disease.
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07/25/2010 21:26
TrevB
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07/25/2010 21:26
TrevB
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Re: Response to radiotherapy for DD
Had my treatment in Jan & March 2009 with the objective of stopping or slowing long term progression. I can't say that I noticed much during the two treatments apart from once thinking how pink my hand was. I'm just over 15 months past treatment and the disease has certainly regressed so objective achieved so far 
Cambidgeshire, UK.
Edited 07/26/10 00:27
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07/26/2010 05:51
wach  Administrator
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07/26/2010 05:51
wach Administrator
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Re: Response to radiotherapy for DD
M yguess would be if you catch Dupuytren's very early, i.e. in the phase where you have a small (mm size) nodule growing, the efffect of RT is probably faster. That nodule might vanish within weeks. If you have RT later where the nodule is already firmly established it might take months to see whether the disease is stable or regressing, i.e. it takes longer to see the effect. But just a guess. There might also be considerable individual differences.
Wolfgang
TrevB:
Had my treatment in Jan & March 2009 with the objective of stopping or slowing long term progression. I can't say that I noticed much during the two treatments apart from once thinking how pink my hand was. I'm just over 15 months past treatment and the disease has certainly regressed so objective achieved so far
Cambidgeshire, UK.
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