Head and Neck Cancer
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Best place for treatment
My father, age 77, has just been diagnosed with Stage III esophogheal cancer and is undergoing chemo and radiation. We've been told that surgery is his best chance for survival, but we'd like to 1) get another opinion and don't know who to go to 2) find out what the best place would be for the surgery and 3) see if…
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Osteoporosis following radiation
I'm a 3 year throat/lymph gland cancer survivor. This fall, after rapidly increasing pain and decreasing joint mobility over the past year, I was given a bone scan, the results being severe osteoporosis. The numbers read like the skeleton of a 90+ year old woman. I'm 50, and have been very physically active my entire life.…