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Chemo question.
I've been on chemo for 6 weeks. After a CT, I found out that 2 lymph nodes shrank, but the tumor on the base of my tongue enlarged. My docs have offered to add Taxotere to my regimen. They'll take away Erbitux and keep Flourouracil and Carboplatin. Anyone have experience with the new combo? How about with Taxotere? Thanks!
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another neck dissection on opposite side 14 months later
Hello everyone. I need your help and advise,here is my mom's story: 10/30/2010-diognossed with stage 3 tonsil SCC with one lymph node 11/15/10-surgury to remove tonsil and neck dissection, during surgury another small cancer approx. 0.3 cm found on hard palate also removed. 2/17/11-finished radiation, no chemio was…
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50/50... the true stat to live by, an excerpt by Brian Hill, OCF Founder
Well said, thank you Brian... "I deal with lots of doctors as part of my work at OCF. Treatment people from all disciplines and researchers both. I work with the SEER database numbers routinely as we are looking towards the future by reviewing the newly obtained data from the past. Of all these people, one good friend at…
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BOT
A person I know was diagnosed about 1 1/2 years ago with BOT cancer he did not have any surgery but did do the traditional rads and cisplatin. He elected to have a PEG and a Tracheotmy due to some issues with aspiration early on. When I first saw him a year ago he was several months post treatment. I recently saw him and…
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Let's all pray for UN-Matted Nodes!!!!!!
Well, it's probably a question we don't really want to ask our doctors, but I thought this article was interesting!!!!!! It would be great for future newbies who could benefit from lower treatment protocols. The presence of “matted” lymph nodes in persons with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)—that is, nodes that…
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GLIOBLASTOMA
SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT GBM OR GLIOBLASTOMA
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pain meds
I am posting tis to ask for any info on what others are using for pain managment. I was diagnosed with adenoid cycstic carsonoma in sept 03 had radiation and was told I was good to go. Unfortunatly its not turning out that way. In the last 2 and a half years I've had 3 more operations and 5 teeth removed because of…
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PET Scan on 2/1/12
This is my first post. I wish I would have found CSN a long time ago. I am 8 months post radiation and chemotherapy. Was diagnosed on 3/23/11 with SCC base of tongue - stage 2 with no apparent spread. Surgery the next day then seven weeks of radiation with three chemos. during. I experienced the usual hell - had wisdom…
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Update
Hi all: My friend Debbie's travel buddy that was diagnosed with breast cancer this week as stage 3 saw the oncologist yesterday and he feels that it's stage 2 instead of stage 3 so that was some good news. She starts her chemo on Tues. Thanks for the prayers and keep them coming. My friend Debbie thanked me for being so…
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Vocal Cord Cancer T3M0N0 newly diagnosed
Hi Everyone, I am 48 years old and suffered a hoarse voice for about 3 weeks so I quit smoking on Jan 1 2012 then want to general doctor on Jan 3 who sent to me to ENT who said looks like i had early stage cancer, next a biopsy confirmed cancer stage T2 refered me to Radiologist.who said could be treated with Radiation…
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Swollen epiglottis
Hello to all, My dad is 14 weeks since his last chemo and radiation treatment. We have had 8 weeks of speech therapy (a swallow study showed us a swollen epiglottis which was not flipping well making swallowing foods difficult) we had a ct scan which showed Ned and a scope as well so the big picture is a blessing. However…
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One year post treatment
Hello everyone and first off this forum has been extremely helpful in this journey. It has been perhaps one of the hardest years of my 46 . I have been through alot, being a recovering alcoholic I have had many rough times in my life. Having lost everything at 38 and managing to become a contributor to society and now…
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Jaw pain
Andy has had jaw/gum pain for a month and all the docs say everything looks fine. They are thinking it is scar tissue and tightening his movement so that it hurts to open his mouth very wide at all. Recommended stretching. Anybody have some experience with this and some stretch exercises?
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Another Prayer Request
Hi all: It seems this bease is popping up all over the place. Yesterday my friend Debbie called me about a friend of hers (whom I've met; delightful person)she worked with and travels with and was just beside herself. She had just finished lunch with her in Chatt. (where they both live) Debbie was down at her cousin's here…
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Enlarged Lymphnodes
Hey Everyone, I have been feeling like i have a minor cold lately. Tonight I just got this piercing pain under my left ear so i started to investigate. I found 2 lumps on each side of my adams aplle.they seem so sudden and i got the whole turkey neck thing too. Of course I am worried now. I hoped you guys could give me…
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From Sweet Dreams To Wet Dreams.....
Get'yer mind outta the gutter. From Sweet Dreams To Wet Dreams, One Woman's Struggle To Just Get Some D@mn Sleep. Like, that? It may be the title of my memoir. Gah! Just have to tell you what happened to me last night. I, of course, share this with, you, my friends, the only ones that will truly understand. So last night,…
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Prayer for Eddie
Hi all: A couple of weeks ago I posted about Eddie who is the husband of the caregiver Gladys that took care of my brother. Well, they finally got all the news yesterday and it's not good. He has pancreatic cancer that has spread to his liver. It is Stage 3 so they cannot do any surgery. He will being doing 4 weeks of…
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very close friend has tongue cancer
Hello to all of you wonderful people taking the time to post your stories on this site. Thankfully we have the internet which enables us to form global communities that help and support us all through life's journeys! A very close friend of mine - who is more like a sister - is about to have at least 3/4 of her tongue and…
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Looking for Hypopharyngeal (Esophageal/Laryngeal) Survivors, Please
Hey - I think Charles54's earlier post got lost in the shuffle - he came in a few days ago to introduce himself and check for folks with a diagnosis similar to his. He has hypopharyngeal, and was wondering if there were others in the same boat.
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Numbness in hands and left foot
Hi all, I have been experiencing random numbnees in my hands and left foot. I have been through four rounds of Chemo and 22 of 35 Rad sessions. Has anyone else out there had this side effect?
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SWEET
Just a general question regarding taste....... I have no sense of sweet three weeks after radiation and a month since last chemo. Did anyone else share this same experience? And when did sweet return, if at all, following treatment. I bought a dozen donuts today just because......but cant eat them because I am sure they…
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pain during swallowing almost 1 year post treatment
Hello, it's now been over 1 year since my mom's first surgury on 11/15/10 for tonsil cancer and radiation which was completed on 2/17/11, second surgury for small tongue cancer was on 10/6/11. Yesterday we went to her ENT and we spoke about my mom's problem. She is having slight pain during swallowing in the same spot as…
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New HPV Info
http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/26/10243115-more-men-than-women-have-oral-cancer-virus You will probably need to copy and past to your browser to get to the article or I guess you could type in the entire line. John
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Phlegm management
If the updside down picture didn't tip you off already, I'm new to the site. I'm HPV+ SCCHN IVA, t1,n2,m0 and started concurrent chemo (cis-platin) and radiation (IMRT, twice daily) on 1/3/12, so I'm a day short of 3 weeks of treament in a 6 week regimine, and crossing off the days one at a time! I've gotten meds to the…
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Good news
Hello everyone, Just wanted to say that Carmen received her results after her partial glossectomy. She is cancer free. No need of radiation. what a relief. Pathology said displasia (not sure of spelling) pre-cancerous cells in what they removed on the 10th of jan 2012. They are almost sure they got all the precancerous…
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The Work Dilemma
I had one of those revelatory moments at work. I was completing my self-assessment for the past year and came face-to-face with the fact that my cancer really has had an impact at work. But how do you acknowledge that in a self-evaluation? Because I am very familiar with employment law and HR, I tried desperately to find…
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Does prognosis change??
Hello all, my girlfriend, Natalie was diagnosed with stage 4b NPC last July. Docs told us her 5 year survival is around 35%. She done with her treatment last November and was declared NED on her first post treatment PET scan. Based on her NED result, does that change her prognosis? She has always been healthy and I was…
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Fibrosis on togue
Hello, I´m 51 days past my partial glossectomy surgery. Still feeling fibrosis and hard areas in the tongue. I was T1N0M0. Has anyone on something like that? Can u share experiences? thanks
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Seond neck dissection
Good news today. The biopsies were negative and the drain tubes are out. My doc did not close it up though, I have to keep it packed with gauze and replace it daily....I can definitely tell you guys where the nerves in my neck are as I seem to hit them everyday in my attempt to keep the packing in. My wife and I simply…
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Sleep
I have read over the past couple of years on this board and others the problem a lot of people have with sleeping. At my last check up with the team we talked about about sleep and a successful recovery and a healthy life after treatment, the chemo doc and the rad onc told me that, second only to lifestyle, sleep was…