Hi

Has anyone found a good skin cream for post radiotherapy treatment? My treatment has been quite successful as to stopping any progression of nodules and indeed softening and reducing them to some extent.

My problem is the unpleasant feel of the treated skin, which feels like smooth plastic. I apply lots of creams all the time but I suspect the RT kills off the sweat glands and sebaceous glands, so that this feeling is inevitable and I'll just have to live with it. But I miss my sweaty palms!

Any ideas?

aryan

Thanks for the tip. I'm happy to give anything a go

Mine is palm side only, palm and fingers. It was explained to me that the radiation depth was limited by the use of a 'bolus'.

Interesting comment. You said, "Sometimes I wish I'd waited a bit to see if I had the signs of any contraction, before rushing into the RT option

That is what I have been wrestling. Whether I would advise everyone who gets a nodule to have RT at $8,000 -13,000 a procedure. A great percentage of people never have contraction from their Dupuytren's. I had two dermal pits/nodules that have not progressed at all in 15 years and have actually almost gone away. If the costs were the same as in Germany, it would be a "no brainer", but at U.S. costs it becomes an interesting decision.

Good point, callie! I believe everyone is struggling with this as the individual disease progression is not predictable. It's probably an individual decision for the most extent. Personally I wouldn't advise RT for someone who is 80 and developed a slowly growing nodule, neither would I advise it for someone who is 20. I myself had my first RT with 35 and that finger is still OK. I thought I could escape RT when I developed a new nodule 5 years later and that led into surgery which in turn triggered a lot of new nodules. Those I had irradiated are now dormant, those where I missed RT are causing trouble. But that's my personal experience. For someone else it might just be a nodule and that's it. In that case RT would be a waste of money and taking unneccessary risk. Hard to predict.

Wolfgang

callie:

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...That is what I have been wrestling. Whether I would advise everyone who gets a nodule to have RT at $8,000 -13,000 a procedure. A great percentage of people never have contraction from their Dupuytren's. I had two dermal pits/nodules that have not progressed at all in 15 years and have actually almost gone away. If the costs were the same as in Germany, it would be a "no brainer", but at U.S. costs it becomes an interesting decision.