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swallow exercises
What are the exercises you do to "fix" swallowing?
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Tips on getting through a good nights sleep...?
Hi All, My dad has recently finished treatment for laryngeal cancer, supraglottis S3N1. Treatment finished nearly 3 months ago, total of 35 rads & 3 rounds of cisplatin chemo over a 7 week period. He has been through it all and recovering well, back to eating on his own...no more tube! HOWEVER....since he has been eating…
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What a relief!
Pop, pop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is! I finally got the copy of my PET scan report. Looks AOK. Putting the dancing shoes on. I have waited a long time for this. See the doctor on Wednesday.
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Found a new toothpaste
While looking for PreviDent5000, I came across 3M Clinpro5000. It's more than double the size, touts better fluoride uptake, better remineralization (has Tr-Calcium Phosphate), and lower abrasion over the Colgate brand. On the shelf, they were the same price $13.99, but rang in on sale for $3.50 (ShoppersDrugMart, Canada).…
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Any recommendations on NPC Radiation Oncologist near New York or TriState area?
Hi there, I was recently diagnosed as having NPC... now looking for a good radio oncologist near my home: New York or Tri-State area. As I found out that NPC is rare in the US, I wish he or she could have previous experiences and treats NPC on a regular basis. So far I have references to some very good radio oncologist,…
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FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION OF NECK MASS
Im scheduled for a Fine Needle Aspiration tommorrow, I searched the Super Thread but not able to get what I was looking for. Although it looks to be a simple process based on Cancer Websites, just thought I would reach out to the people in the know. Did everyone get a Biopsy? I assume for the Staging it is necessary. Once…
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Waiting for Scan Results
Seeing my oncologist tomorrow for the results of my MRI. Very nervous! This feels like quite an important scan - I had a clear PET scan around Xmas (which fooled my doctors into thinking I had a branchial cyst rather than a cancerous lymph node with unknown primary!), then waited a couple of months for it to be removed…
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Preparing for treatment
Hello all!!! I am very new to all of this. I was diagnosed last week on April 11, 2012 with Stage III Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Tongue. I had was I thought was a canker sore on my tongue since mid-January and went to my GP and my dentist 6 times combined and was told it was just a canker sore for 2 months. I was still…
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Cancer Etiquette Revisited - my rant for the day!
Months and months ago, I posted a link to a beautifully written and humorous blog entry by Amanda Enayati about cancer etiquette, in this case 'breast cancer etiquette.' Not our kind of cancer, but the etiquette still applies. It's definitely worth sharing with family and friends. It triggered several responses from folks…
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Important to me!!!!!!
Hey everyone...Bill here...just finished 35 rads and 9 week chemo for Stage 4 SCC...When first diagnosed, I had a lump the sise of a raquetball on my neck and all the discussion was whether it was to bid to remove or did I have to get rad/chemo to shrink and then remove...it was diagnosed HPV abd shrank immediately,,,,,now…
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Mrs. Sarge...
Copy and paste this into your address bar...It's part of the Super Thread regarding us who are about to start radiation. http://csn.cancer.org/node/236691
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Finance help?
Thought i'd ask here cause I haven't found any information on the site yet. I have metastatic malignant malenoma stage III N1b. I will be out of work for the chemo treatments because the company I work for looses its contract with the air force on apr 27. Needless to say I will be jobless and trying to find a way to help…
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New baby
I have a new granddaughter Jessica Rae 6 lbs 5 ozs. Life continues to recycle :>) Baby and mom doing great...dad is a nervous wreck
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Warnings, hints, suggestions of things to do!!
Just been diagnosed with Stage 1 Spindell Cell Carcinoma of the vocal cords. It was originally diagnosed and surgery done 1 1/2 yrs. ago. Never smoked/never drank and I am a female, so the only risk factor I had was reflux. Noticed my voice getting hoarse, had polyps and when they went in to get them also saw a suspicious…
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radiation & urbitux: burning skin solutions?
I have just had 3 radiation treatments (33 more to go) and 2 erbitux (cetuximab) infusions and already am experiencing fiery burn sensations and some redness over face (especially strong), neck, and chest. Since I have some rash on my face, I think that both treatments are contributing to the burning sensation. Radiation…
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Me and My Big Fish...
Sorry to start a new post, but wanted you to get a face with the name. This is my big fish I caught a few years ago. I was nicknamed that afterwards. :) I hope to keep up with y'all. I'm still in such worry mode over the biopsy on my tongue and possible recurrent SCC, mets all that stuff. Maybe it's in my head but I think…
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SCC Recurrence?
I posted this on the Skin Cancer site, but have had no responses yet since the 10th, so thought I would try again here. Here is my post: So I posted recently on HNC board about just having a tongue biopsy under the left side of my tongue on Monday. I had Mohs surgery on Feb. 28, 2012 to remove SCC from my right lower lip.…
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Another surgery for Jim - update
Yesterday Jim had a CT on his stomach for pain he has had since they put the shunt in his brain. He has a mess, as the surgeon said, where the small intestine and the large intestine are joined, There is a 50/50 chance of cancer. However, the drain tube for the shunt drips on this area and it may be causing inflamation.…
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strange - Fever
My husband started with a headache yesterday at 4:30 and started running a fever up to 101.8. Took some asprin and fever went away. Woke up this morning fine and no fever. Then again today at 4:30 headache and another fever same temp. He has no other symptons. Any idea what could be going on?
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FINITO
Hooray, I just finished my last Rad session, 33 and out. Now its cooking for a Couple of weeks then on the road to recovery. TASTE BUDS, SALIVA, REAL FOOOOOOD. This board and the people here have been fantastic and I would like to say T H A N K Y O U To each and everyone of you for all your support and advice. I'm not…
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never give up
I am a 78 yr.old male DX.in 2011 with B.O.T & gland,both sides and spread to right lung,no prim. found.Very close to end-in Hosp. for week and down to 115lbs.They, Dr's said I was only treatable, not cureable, and was given very little hope to with stand the Chemo/Rad. A thanks to the many post read on this network and my…
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Lympnode left side of neck behind ear removed, stage III metastatic malignant malenoma
Hi all, i'm new here and mid february had a small pea sized lump in my neck, was concerned as I had five small skin cancers and a small malenoma removed from my back before. Went to the doc and was told it was probably an infection in my lympnode was given antibiotics and went home. Next week it was twice the size (1cm),…
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Three Years, and Counting
Got my PS/CT results today- all clean. My ENT, whose name is Tomek and a Wake Forest alumn, and whom I am really, really, glad he is my ENT, was showing an Intern around. He had to summarize my case, and told this Intern that because of my unknown Primary they had to "double dose" my treatment, which is the first I'd heard…
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Allergy Season
Has anyone here come up with a good concoction of allergy meds that doesn't add to the dry mouth we all seem to have. I am getting my butt kicked by the pollen over here in Oregon.lol
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Port in place, however...
instead of them kicking me out of this place at 1:00 in the afternoon as planned, I'm laying in a hospital bed with a punctured lung...not badly punctured, more like a slow leak :) wish they had the same stuff you can put into a tire for slow leaks...hopefully it will seal up by tomorrow morning, and I get home by early…
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New to CSN Tongue cancer
Hi all, I am new here. I just had surgery to remove a part of my tongue. The pain I can deal with it's the sounding like Sylvester the cat I can't get over! :-) Anyways I was wondering if there are any others out there that are scared that the Cancer will come back. I had not even thought about that since the surgery…
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Toothpaste
I have been using the biotene gel toothpaste since my diagnosis last Aug, along with that I use a sonicare elec toothbrush and a waterpic...sometimes I don't think the toothpaste is really cleaning my mouth, guess in my skewed brain if it ain't foamy in my mouth ,please JG no comments about a foamy mouth :p ), it ain't…
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Checking In
Hi All: Hope everyone had a Hoppy Easter! I got back from Hilton Head last week as a brief little vacation. While there visited Parris Island as my oldest brother (the only I have left) was a Marine and I really wanted to go and visit it. It was very impressive and I got him some great souvenirs. I have some sad news. I…
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Such a busy time....
but things are coming together it appears. Monday/mammogram...Tues meeting with the surgeon to put in my port and the Gastreo____(I can't spell it)who will do the tube. Today a MRI for my brain and cervical...tomorrow placing the port. The oncologist called and said they will be starting chemo and rads on Monday the 16th…
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Husband's Plan - Clinical Trial
We've spent the last two days meeting with doctors, research people, nurses, etc. My husband finds himself in the unfortunate position of recurrence and has positive margins after his 3/5 surgery. He is slated for cisplatin chemo weekly, concurrently with 6 weeks of IMRT radiation. (They are dosing him weekly instead of…