Most people in my radiation wait room get to celebrate and leave around this mark (average treatments are 12 to 15 sessions), so now I am starting to see new faces and I am becoming the "old-timer" in the group.
I have tried to figure out why I am getting double the average sessions considering that I had a "complete response" to the chemotherapy, but the only answer I got was -- this is the protocol based on the studies for triple negative breast cancer. And, yes, there is currently an ongoing study to figure out if patients with complete response actually need less radiation instead of a lot more -- but as it is ongoing, we are still following known protocols.
