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stage 4 throat cancer
Need some direction: I am not sure if I should try chemo and radiation for 8 weeks or just have a complete laryngectomy. Does anyone have any experience with either? I would love to hear how it went. Thank You Mike
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First Post-Treatment PET was Clear!
Just a quik update. i had my first post treatment PET scan done and my surgeon, oncologist and radiation oncologist all gave me the all cllear for now. I will have scopes done every 3 months and CT scans (w/o contrast) every 6 months to begin just to keep an eye on a couple items but what an initial relief! All the pain…
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How To Embed A Clickable Link
In your forum posting. This is just a "For Your Information" posting to let folks know how to make a clickable link in your posting. * First, you might start typing as in answering a post but in this case, I am going to talk about and show how to post a clickable link to a page that explains it. My directions will be for…
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Mayo HNC Doctor on N Acetylcysteine for thick mucus/saliva in HNC patients in radiation therapy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kgwUWdwwsNw 6:14 run time. Jump to 3:00 for quick run down. N Acetylcysteine is helping people with the thick mucous/saliva. Thoughts? I have gobs of this stuff at home and I'm not afraid to use it!
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Post Neck Dissection Tightness - any good ideas?
Hi All, Any suggestions and/or expectations for post neck dissection tightness relief? Any recommendations for topical ointments, accupuncture, cupping, botox, stretches? I had my surgery late 2020, not sure if present tightness is the norm or if this too improves with time. Z
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Ear Canal
I am a 12 year survivor of Nasophylangeal Cancer with metatsis to the lung. I have also had a bladder cancer and been cancer free for four years up until a week ago. I was experiencing some wierd stufdf in my right ear and my ENT doctor found an agreesive growth in the far inner portion of my ear canal. Biopsy confirms…
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tongue cancer - reoccurance
Hi All, After 9 years my tougue cancer is back. I just got the biopsy result today and made all the follow up appointments. Anyone went thru reoccurance? Any advice? I know second time around options are liited. This group helped a ton my first time around. I am so grateful for this group. Thanks, Sam
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Tongue Paralysis Prior to Treatment of NPC diagnosed patient
Hello, sorry if this is premature as Ay sister who is the cancer patient has yet to have her PET scan and is not yet on her treatment plan. Also I did my best to do a search of the discussion boards but couldn't find the same issue. My sister who was diagnosed with lupus about 18 months ago, all of a sudden started having…
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New Member to the "Club"
Hello all HNC'ers, Well, as others have said...not a club that you want to be a member of....but the community support, knowledge, and perspective is tremendous. First the facts: Diagnosis: SCC with unknown Primary, although Tonsil Primary is suspected. Currently, at the University of Florida Shands ENT. SCC diagnosed…
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Received good news today
First I want to thank everyone for their prayers, support and great information during this scare I was having thinking the lump near my tonsil might be cancer. I didn't know what else to think since I have already had oral cancer on my tongue. We need to take Russ's advice when he tells us it isn't cancer until they say…
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Nasopharyngeal question
So, I have a question for anyone who had NPC, or treatment that may have caused this concern. I'm about 19 months out of treatment. My source of Cancer was my left Nasal Passage. Approximately a year ago, I started noticing a regular (daily) discharge from that left side, of what looks like little sheets of translucent…
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Easter
Wishing all the folks on the forum here a Happy and Blessed Easter. I pray for continued Blessing for all the folks on here as we deal with the good and not so good but no matter what keep looking for the positives in everything. All we can do is trust in our medical teams, trust in God, and deal with our situation at…
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Well we made it ten years, but it's back
In late 2010 to early 2011, my husband had basal tongue and salivary gland cancer. He went through chemo, robotic surgery, and radiation, and all the follow up therapy. We thought we had gotten past it and were home free. We've been traveling, eating whatever my husband wanted, he's been singing and playing music, speaking…
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Another Year
Hello all, yesterday was eleven years that I completed radiation. I thought the full neck disection was rough but the radiation out did that. It was HPV and decided in 2018 it wanted to do an encore in my right lung but **** got booed off the stage. Those five radiation treatments were a walk in the park compared 30 in the…