Radiotherapy sessions are short, lasting roughly 20–30 minutes. However, in total, you should allocate an hour for treatment due to the preparation time.
Patients have a daily session 4–5 days a week with the weekend off. The treatment is administered over six to seven months.
In patients who need palliative care, the use of radiation is shorter – two to three weeks at most.
There are shorter programmes, between 15–20 sessions, but they are still experimental (as are those that are even shorter).