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Head and Neck Cancer
Archives for November 2008
Discussion List
BHMLabs - Please don't SPAM
You may have a great product but please don't append a message to every thread about your product. Maybe create 1 topic with some useful information about your product and leave it at that. I have flagged your posts as offensive. nuff said!
Survey
Hey everyone, my name is Paul Hogan and I am currently a psychology student at the California State University in Fresno. I am currently conducting research on the life outlooks of cancer survivors. If you could spare 10 minutes of your time to take a survey, I would greatly appreciate it. I myself am a past cancer…
bisphosphonates and dental work
I, a 12 year cancer survivor, was taking Actonel or Fosamax for osteopenia when a crown broke off a tooth. My dentist was able to clean the tooth stub and glue the crown back on. Then 4 years later it broke off again. (I stopped Fosamax last year when I heard about the risk of jawbone necrosis.) My dentist was able to glue…
Mucoepidermal carcinoma - mandible (low grade)
When this whole thing started, I was going to have surgery - that's it. Remove part of my mandible - cancer gone. It's been 4 months now. I've had 2 surgeries, 8 radiation treatments and 1 chemo treatment. I have a total of 7 weeks for radiation and 2 more doses of chemo. The cancer was bigger than the surgeon (or anyone…
mouth sores help
My husband is 5 months out from teatment for stage 3 SCC of base of tongue, T2 N1. He had 2 Cisplatin treatments, 5 Erbitux, and 42 radiation treatments. Peg tube used from second week. Very, very ill all of treatment. Staph infection in 6th week, gastric issues for 4 months. Back to back thrush infections in mouth for 3…
Stage vi cancer WHY?
as some know mom died with stage iv laryngeal sqaumous cell carcinoma cancer T2N2cMo im just wondering why it is that some have a good outsome then others with the stage iv. yes i do know that is varies and is different for each perosn as treatments varies but was just a little curious. i like to learn as much as i can…
in treatment for metastatic squamous cell ca of 2 out of 14 nodes in neck txna2mo
Hi, I'm having my 16 th IMRT today. Had 2nd cysplatin chemo 2 days ago. Having heartburn but no nausea or vomiting. Lucky, huh? I'm having thinning of my hair and wonder if I should get rid of it or wait. this is messy. So far no feeding tube. I'm very tired and don't feel like doing much. I'm sure this is normal. I hope…
mom had long battle with squamous cell carcinoma now gone and i need to vent and need support
didnt know where to turn to but am having some hard times without my mom best friend. Sadly she died on Aug 18th from Squamous stage 4 cancer at the young age of 58. In Feb 07 she was diagnosed with T2N2CMo stage IV cancer went through extensive radiation she was severly burned after 6 wks of treatments and we had to stop…