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Head and Neck Cancer
Archives for February 2006
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Neo Nasopharynx after treatment
My husband had thirty radiations treatments with around the clock chemo. He finished these in Dec. The scan shows the tumor has shrunk about half and he is due another scan next week. he has a feeding tube and will hardly eat anything as he said it tastes so bad and his mouth is always dry. He also has congestive heart…
excessive mucous after radiation
My husband suffers from thick, stringy mucous. He received 38 treatments of radiation, 3 years ago, for tumor under his tongue. He has a feeding tube because he is enabled to swallow. He uses a suction machine all day and throughout the night to help get a short time of relief, but it begins again. He has used many…
Severe constipation with E.C.
My father was diagonosed with E.C. in November 2005. He had 2 cycles of chemo and surgery on Jan 2nd 2006. He is recovering well from surgery . He was diagonosed with T3N3. However he has had severe trouble with constipation and hard stool. Between his 2 chemo cycles he had to be hospitalized for that problem and required…
recovery
My husband finished 8 weeks of radiation with once weekly chemo the first week in December. He was diagnosed with a tumor on the base of his tongue and one lymph node involvment at the end of August. He has feeding tube and din't lose much weight. He still cannot eat, however. Around the first of January he developed a…
Could it be?
Hello! I am a 30 year old mother of 3 beautiful, wonderful children, and hoping to add one more before our family is complete. I was diagnosed w/GERD in '97-'98, and have taken several different prescribed meds for it since. The meds have changed from time to time because I have been pregnant or nursing a child for all but…