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Difficulty Swallowing 6 years into remission
My mother(46 years old) is a 6 year stage 4 tonsil cancer survivor(as of may). After surgery to remove tonsils, 22 treatments of radiation, and 2 different concurrent chemotherapies, she was given the thumbs up for no cancer. However, she had been severely burnt from the inside out with sores from her lips down her…
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lower extremity lymphedema - gyn cancer
I would like to hear from people who have had a gynecologic cancer and have lymphedema. Did you ever hear that this would be a risk of treatment? Which kind of cancer did you have? What treatments did you have? How bad is your lymphedema? How do you control it? Do you know that Medicare will not pay for your compression…
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Long term young adult survivors
I had a childhood cancer at 24. I am thirty now and have been in remission for 6 and a half years. However, I still have some major medical issues and new ones come up all the time. I recently had to go back on disability and getting a full work up because they know I don't have a tumor, but they don't know what's wrong.…
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Radiation in Infancy
As an infant I was radiated in 1946 for an enlarged thymus gland in the mistaken belief that this would prevent SIDS. The amount of radiation I absorbed was equal to ten common CT studies today. After surgery, radiation and chemo treatments for four cancers (leukemia, thyroid, lymphoma, prostate), three open-heart…
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Buttock / Hip Pain Suggestions
Last year diagnosed with uterine cancer and had 6 rounds of taxol/carboplatin, plus sandwiched in middle 33 sessions of PELVIC radiation. Finished July 30, '09 and been feeling great outside of one area -- pain in buttock / hip area. It's not the end of the world but it does tend to come and go, possibly depending on my…