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Chemo brain
Do you know that appliances work a lot better whenever they are plugged in? Glad I was home alone. Denny
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What do you think??? Should I be worried???
My husband is 8 months out from chemo and radiation. I have brought this subject up once before, but I am a little more worried. Last night my husband tripped over his ugg boots in the dark and fell while getting up tp let the dogs out. This morning, while I was at work he turned around and tripped over the dog and fell…
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Second neck dissection, of sorts.....
I am a week post surgery now to remedy the post treatment infection that I developed in my neck. After three weeks on antibiotics, my Dr had a CT done and saw that there was a rather large "sterile abcess" in my neck. He performed pre-surgical biopsies of the area and they came back NED, thank God. I am now recovering from…
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radiation
Those of you who have had radiation-how long does the radiation continue to work after completion? How long to shrink a tumor? How long did it take to get your strength and appetite back?
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My feet are killing me
I've now been on erbitux for about 10 weeks. It has been a struggle for me. My face finally settled down, but that required lots of TLC, steroids, and time. Now my finger tips and heels are fissuring badly. The finger tips I can handle by wearing occlusive gloves at night and slathering them with vaseline, but the feet are…
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NED but.....
Hi everyone. So I just hand my first PET and MRI since completing treatment in early november for NPC and it came back NED but the scans showed calcification on the left side of my thyroid. Now we are going to do an ultrasound and biopsy to determine if I need to worry about my thyroid having cancer. Has any one gone…
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Good and Bad News today
Hubby received the results from his 2nd post treatment PET scan today. His initial scan was in June before treatment, he had one 2 months out and now 5 months out. Due to kidney issues he cannot have the contrast anymore. Anyway.. the good news is that the tumor area is totally clear but they want him to go in for a…
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Tonsil Ca
I was diagnosed in late Oct 2011 with Left tonsil ca. I had a neck resection with one positive node in left neck which was encapsulated. I then underwent a radical tonsillectomy using the Davinci robot all margins were clear. Because of the robotic surgery I was told I would not need chemo and the radiation therapy would…
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My son
Hi guys, I apologize for not checking in once in a while but my son has gotten worse. We're in the hospital now, he was ambulanced in Tuesday evening after 7 hours of chemo up here. The infusion department of the hospital closes at 7:30pm and everyone but one nurse had left and then my son became dizzy, nauseous and…
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prayers for Jim update
Thanks for all the prayers and offers for help with my Ambien. I have recieved some money to help with that. Jim's surgery was a success, Thank you Lord! He is home and only has a little pain in his stomach, although still sleeping alot. He has not needed pain meds since leaving the hospital. Doctor said he would regain…
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Not Head and Neck cancer releated but its part of cancer but Joe Paterno Dies from lung cancer
I just wanted to pass long if nobody as heard but Joe Paterno Dies form lung cancer last night. Joe my good friend you will be truly missed.
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First post treatment CT scan
I have been reading posts in this forum since my diagnosis of HPV positive left tonsil (primary) and left lymph node cancer in Oct. Of 2011. This forum has been very helpful post diagnosis, during, and after treatment. I have not posted, but am grateful to know that there are others who share this journey with me. The…
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Treatment choice.
Hi Everybody, I am new to this place it seems like there is a lot of caring people out there, with a lot of information. Well here's my dilemma almost a month ago I got diagnosed with SCC of the left Tonsil it is stage 2 3.7 cm. My ENT Oncologist said after blood work and CT scans and a PET scan that I have 2 choices for…
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NED!!!
I love NED! This was my second PET scan. Went for scan at 10 and was done at 11:30. Got to my fave doc's at 11:40 and by 11:50 he had looked at the scan and was pleased. I felt like I could breathe again. Went to see the 2nd doc at 2 and he said the scan looked fabulous or words such as that. My first doc, Dr. Siddiqui was…
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Lip and mouth sores
Hi everyone, My dad has 17 imrt radiation treatments done and carbo/5th Chemo for tonsil lymph node cancer. Right now his lips are cracked and have a blood blister on them and sores on the inside. Dr said try aquaphor and a&d ointment but it does not help. Does anyone know any treatment to help this? Also anyone heard of…
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T1N0M0 Tongue Survivor, is there any?
Hi, I´ve been looking around this forum to someone T1N0M0 tongue cancer survivor. Didn´t find anything on the archives... Is there any? Since I´m 46 days of my surgery I´d like to head some stories by someone with similar situation. Thanks a lot again!
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Carbo/taxol
will be starting carbo/taxol next week. i have read a lot about this drugs and found out about its effects as well as its side effects. anybody got this cocktail before? what to expect...
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Atrophy of the neck area
Looking to see if anyone else is experiencing issues with Low Blood Pressures (Orthostatic Hypotension - Low Blood Pressure dropping when changing positions from Sitting to standing within 3 minutes of more than 20mmHG). I am starting to associate this issues with the Atrophy of my neck due from the complications from…
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EBV iga positive (NPC)
Hi I just went to a health screening and my result show that my EBV iga is 139 >120 positive Does that means that I have contacted NPC , cause this is what the doc told me I will be going to a hospital for check up next week Thanks alot for reading
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Basketcase again!
Hi all: I've been a real basketcase the past few days! Tuesday I left the house to run errands and walk. I stopped at the park about a mile from my house and not many people were there as it had been raining. I noticed when I pulled in a car with two people just sitting there; dumb me thought oh, they're waiting on…
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No more talk, Treatment starts today
Well here I go. Radiation treatment starts today. OF course I couldn't sleep very well and have been up since 0345. Pretty nervous, but want to get it started. Yesterday was tough day, and busy. Had my finale radiation "planning" appt. Doctor freaked out when I told him I had teeth removed after my planning ct scan. He was…
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Strange new happenings
Ok, so Ron was diagnosed with Stage 1V sinus cancer. The cancer had invaded both maxillary and enthomoid (sp) as well as the frontal left lobe of the brain, eye orbit and eye and all nerves etc that go with. He underwent a 26 hour operation to remove all included eyeball and 6 lymph nodes on the right side. Then 32…
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over 8 months
my hubby is still suffering fron severe throat pain 8 months out. tonight he is at an 8 and it seems to stay between 6 -8. I am curious what is it, that seems to cause all this pain over 8 months out.
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over 8 months
my hubby is still suffering fron severe throat pain 8 months out. tonight he is at an 8 and it seems to stay between 6 -8. I am curious what is it, that seems to cause all this pain over 8 months out.
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"If you smile at me, I will understand"
(Crosby, Stills and Nash reference) Today was teeth day at the local torture shop, I mean dentist. My dentist is a truly wonderful man with an even better example of humanity in his primary hygenist, Pam. But it does not make the trip any more enjoyable, for all of their wonderful attributes as humans, as professional…
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What type of follow up after treatments have ended?
Hello, Husband PET is clear and the healing has begun. He had stage 4a throat cancer. Primary site on his tonsils and formed a tumor on his neck. He never got his tonsils out and he went through the chemo and radiation. I'm curious as to the kind of test your doctors have done after your first clean PET scan. The…
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Update on operation
Hello friends, I just wanted to give you an update on how Carmen's operation went. It went well considering what it is about. The opereration went on for a couple of hours. Oh my........we had no idea of the extend of this operation. We thought he was removing a little bit (2 cms by 4). Poor Carmen, she was in shock when…
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A few questions
I have read every old post about teeth and flouride but still have a question. I use trays with flouracil 20,000ppm 5 mins a day. I asked my rad doc if it was for life and he said no, just until you get some saliva back, probably a few years. Is this true or does it just boil down to personal preference, insurance etc?…
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Back from G'Burg and Prayer Requests
Hi all: Got back from G'burg yesterday afternoon. We had a blast even with the rain and we did have a little snow. One of the friends I went with wanted to go to visit where they scattered her brother's ashes last year at his request when he passed away due to cancer; so we did that of course and the rain stayed away for…
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depression or just a temporary state of mind?
Sometimes in the middle of the night I wake up and am already in racing thought mode. I lay there and wait for it to pass... Sometimes during the day I become overwhelmed by the thoughts of whats the use? I take a lorazepam. I am going to die eventually and came so close to it while I was on treatment that I think I…