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my daily dosage was likely higher than yours, since my treatment was only 16 days long (my total dose was 42 Gy).

I started to see the outline of the radiation frame by 8 days in (I would see it at night, and it would fade by morning - similar to having been in the sun. It was very prominent by 13 days in.

I never had any tenderness associated with it - just a bit of itching for a week or so after the end of the treatment.

I used My Girls cream from the day it arrived (about 3 days into treatment). Before that I had bought some calendula ointment to get me started. It's supposed to have some preventative characteristics.