Hello, I had 8 boosts - not sure why but it might have been because the cut my chemo short. That was because my blood counts went too low. Anyway they just target the area they took the cancer from. I did not notice any more skin redness or tiredness.
Rebecca
The 5 boosters are delivered specifically on the tumour site area where the scar is, rather than the whole breast. My scar is at the top of my breast so I had an area in a slightly rectangular shape which got redder as the treatment went on and increased for probably about a week afterwards, but then it started to ease down and turn brown, as if it was tanned, and has now disappeared, my whole breast looks like normal now. The only thing I found as post rads, because I have quite a lot of moles, they got quite dry and itchy some days but once I applied my E45 they settled down.
I am not sure if it is a higher dose or whether it is because it is on a more concentrated smaller area, the actual session itself was a lot shorter than the regular ones, I think the blast was 40 secs in all.
Helena xx