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What will happen during my treatment planning visit?Your radiation therapy, also called your ‘treatment course,’ begins with a planning visit. To ensure the radiation therapy you receive can be given the same way each time, your doctor will fine tune the location of the treatment and decide on the exact position you’ll be in during each treatment. Your doctor and radiation therapy team use a special procedure called simulation (sometimes referred to as CT simulation) to determine your exact treatment position. The simulator and laser lights are used as guides to move you into correct position. The radiation therapy team then makes notes in your chart so you will be placed in the correct position each time you receive a treatment. Your skin will be marked over the treatment area so each treatment will target the same area. A photograph will be taken of these markings and placed in your medical chart. While the simulation uses CT images, or x-ray images, to determine the treatment area, the images are not used to any sort of diagnosis or treatment assessment. They are only to ensure you are exactly where you need to be to treat your cancer. Occasionally, the treatment area may change as the treatment progresses. When this happens, your radiation oncologist and radiation therapy team may change your treatment lines, and a new planning visit may need to be done.
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