So my oncologist at Karmanos threw this term at me last week, tumor treating fields, and honestly it went right over my head. I'm still recovering from the EPP surgery in Feb so I wasn't really ready to add another thing to the list.
But I asked Dr. Patel to explain it like I'm not a doctor and here's what I got. It's basically this vest thing with electrodes that you wear for like 18 hours a day and it sends some kind of electric current through your chest to mess with the cancer cells so they can't divide or multiply or whatever. Not chemo, not radiation, just electricity basically.
From what I gathered it's newer and they're still figuring out how good it actually works. Some people say it helped, some people say it's just another thing strapped to your body when you're already feeling like garbage from the tune-up. The thing is you gotta wear it constantly and it's bulky so if you're trying to like go back to work or spend time with your family it's kinda in the way.
I'm not doing it right now because honestly I'm only Stage I and my surgeon and oncologist both said let's see how the chemo goes first. But if things don't go the way we want they said it's an option to talk about.
Anybody here actually using one of these things? What's the real deal?