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Head and Neck Cancer

Archives for November 2010

Has anyone heard from ratface ?
I haven't been on as much as I would like, but has anyone heard from ratface? I haven't gone thru all the threads, but was just wondering. Dave
An AWESOME experience!
Warning: Long post (as usual for me) Two weekends ago I was privileged to be invited to go to the Wind River Cancer Wellness Retreat out in the foothills of NC. In a single hyphenated word... life-changing! You could also use words like 'amazing' and 'relaxing' and 'therapeutic' and 'needed' if you would like as well. What…
NPC cancer recur
Hi, I finished my NPC (T3n0m0) treatment on August 2009. On 26th October 2010, my x-ray deteched the cancer cell in my lung. Further ct-can show metastases lump nodes in both lungs.The biggest one is 3cm. Need another 6 round of chemo. 1 round of chemo in every 3 weeks. Doc said treament is to control it and it may recur…
Oct 30 makes a year
Hello everyone, I havent been on is quite a while. It got to be too much for me. No suggestions were working for my boyfriend in his recovery as far as food. He still does not eat solid foods. Oct 30 made 1 year that he finished his treatment. has had 3 or 4 follow ups, where the dr has poked, prodded, stuck things in and…
Two primary tumors
Has anybody on this board been diagnose with two primary site in the throat?
Dad 4 months out of treatment for Stage 4 tongue cancer-still in pain?
hello again, my poor father is still experiencing horrible pain.. he finished treatment chemo and radiation on june 17 and 18th.. he had 8 biopsies done about 3 months ago and they came backed no cancer, ENT was shocked because he said my father had a very advanced cancer... he was doing well this past month and gets the…
Delnative knew
Jim, I made the long-overdue trip to the University of Iowa hospital today to visit a Dental Specialist. He's just down the hall from the Otolaryngology center, and one floor right below the H&N Cancer Center, there. According to this Dr.- I shoulda been on the flouride trays right from the get-go, and that includes even…
Even Polly Anna can have a bad day.
Me texting my child: "Sometimes I have these 'OMFG WTF did they do to me' moments. I am afraid the edema is going to choke me in my sleep and that I will have demented elf hair forever. I can't tell anyone because I will cry. And I really have nothing to cry about." My wise child texting back: "And then you remember that…
Dry Skin
Whenever I take a bath,usually once a week, shower all of the other days (I am British I grew up in a bathtub, what do you expect?)LOL, I get white scaly skin on my hands and feet, little whit spots as well, goes away after a few hours, I do not get it when I shower, at least not as much, does this happen to anyone else?…
Yes!!!! add 1 more to the NED list
3 months out now and had my 1st CT scan today and it's clean...NED It's always been a nagging thought in the further reaches of my mind that things have been too easy for me through this whole process and some bad news awaits around the next corner. But a big sigh of relief today. My recovery from treatment has been a…

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