I would be given two weeks of radiation therapy, immediately followed by one week of chemotherapy. I would be allowed to recuperate and regain my strength. Surgery would then remove the diseased area, and immunization therapy would follow immediately. After recuperating from this, I would receive one year of chemotherapy. The logic behind this was explained to me.
Cancer cells are extremely small.
One million cancer cells are the size of the head of a pin. One billion cancer cells are the size of a small marble one centimeter in diameter. Cancer cells can be killed more easily than healthy cells. The radiation therapy that I would receive would kill precisely 72 percent of my cancer cells each day. Therefore, if I started off with 100 billion cancer cells, after the first day I would only have 28 billion left.