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anyone heard of the VMAT radiation
I am a 56 year old male. I have been diagnosed with HPV-16 cancer. I had a lump removed from my neck (attached to lymph-node) and now I am seeing the doctor for the treatment prescription (radiation and chemo.) I will be getting my treatment at the VCU Massey center in Richmond, VA. Does anyone have any experience with the…
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Good News or Bad News?
I had a visit with a chemo onc today to discuss my recurrence of the malignancy in my neck. The fact that this little beastie laughed at the radiation and came back a few months later had me very concerned. Well, the doc was very reluctant to give me a firm "expiration date" as was to be expected. So, the news is that he…
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A couple of questions
Hey Everyone, Work has taken over my life again and has kept me from posting very much. Hope everyone is doing well! A couple of questions for you. I'm 10 months post treatment and doing well, but do have a couple of things I thought I'd run up the flagpole and see what you thought. Every afternoon I get terribly cold. It…
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2nd Belly Button Club
I am now officially a member! That stinky old tube served me well but I am absolutely overjoyed to be rid of it. Doc says I can jump in the ocean tomorrow! Wahooo!!!! Bob
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Lifting weights helping with rebuilding muscle and increasing energy level
A little over a year after treatment and everything is going really well. Saliva, taste and weight are pretty much back to normal except for my energy level. Although i could go to work all day and come home, if i layed on the couch come 7 or 8pm and i was out like a light! Before treatment I generally stayed up until 11…
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7 is my lucky number
OK I finally found an ENT that I like and can answer most of my questions. I don’t know why but it sure seams like the Female ENT doctors know a lot more or maybe they are just more into the feelings of people unlike my Male ENT doctors I have been seeing. Anyway right off she could see most of the problems I been having…
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What do you Enjoy doing
I was just wondering, what is it that each of us enjoys the most. For me it is two things. First: when I get to go home to Utila, normally now it is only on vacation. but when I do I love walking in my brothers botanical garden and being able to eat the fruit right off the tree, makes me home sick just thinking about it.…
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How should a caregiver handle the eating issue?
My husband is a little bit past the 4 week mark post radiation/chemo. I really don't know what to do with meals. Should I just let him decide what he wants (which is nothing)or fix him a plate of food and have him come to the table? For dinner last evening, I presented him with a very small portion of cut up rotisserie…
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Checking In
Hi all: Basketcase checking in here. I have returned from Chatt. this past Sun. afternoon after spending Wed. thru Sun. there helping my niece and her two girls get moved from their rental house to my sister's house. My sister has the son that returned from Ohio to bury his dog Marley that passed on on Christmas Day and is…
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nasopharyngeal cancer
Hi Everyone, I am new to this site and reading all of the support you give one and other is amazing! I am wondering if anyone is going through or knows of anyone going through treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer. My mom was diagnosed with it about a month ago and starts treatments for it on thursday. She will be doing…
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Mornings
About 30 minutes after I wake I am hit hard with what I suppose is anxiety. I have never had it as far as I know and don't quite know what to do with it. It feels like I had about 10 cups of coffee. My stomach is restless and my mind is racing. It's hard to stay focused on what I'm doing and unless I distract myself with…
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Songs
Good Afternoon! I am working with my local Relay for Life, and I am one of the chair's for the Survivor events that will be taking place. I would encourage anyone to attend their local Relay for Life event. My family has been touched multiple times with cancer, and RFL has been a great way for us to Celebrate, Remember,…
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Food Before and After Treatment
I was hungry a little while ago and found myself in the Kitchen looking something to eat. There was all kinds of stuff I loved at one time in my life but find it does not quite taste the same any more, then I found myself eating something I never did like before C but love it now. This led me to wonder about the foods I…
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On Any Given Day…
Cancer never sleeps. It does not discriminate, and no one is immune. Cancer can strike any family, in any community, at any time. And the only way to fight it is to be right there in those communities and with those families …every single day. That’s the great strength of the American Cancer Society. Thanks to our…
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UPDATE
Hello all, I have been petty much non existent from the boards lately. There was a run recently of people having some setbacks and for some reason I have been having trouble with accepting the good as well as the bad. (weakness on my part) I should be in there helping the new comers. I just passed my 90 day mark from post…
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When being “not bright” is a good thing
So, after all those weeks of radiation and chemo and then weeks of being “too hot” to scan (the only time in my life I have ever been “too hot”) we finally did the PET/CT scans to confirm what we already believed. The surgeon called me today to tell me that the scan came out fine and he sees no bright signs of cancer on…
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Free tube food (kinda)
Hey all, I have 8 unopened cases of Compleat and 1 with just 4 cans missing. Each 8.45 oz. can has 250 calories with 12 grams of protein. Compleat contains chicken,cranberry juice, carrots, tomato's and peas along with a whole lot of corn syrup and maltodextrin and other strange ingredients. It was a compromise with the…
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Cold Sores?
My husband finished chemo/rads on Dec 22nd for Stage IVa BOT. Late last month we headed south on a road trip (with the blessing of his docs) just to escape the cold. We are at South Padre, Texas, with limited clinics. Gary has been eating normally for the last 2 1/2 weeks, and has not been using his PEG. Things seemed to…
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Nutritional supplements when weaning off PEG
I am the wife and caregiver of Buzz who completed treatment on January 10 for Stage IV BOT cancer. I am trying to get him off the PEG and would like advice on what supplements are the the best ones as well as the best place to buy or order them. Walgreens and CVS seem to be pretty competitive on price for Boost Plus and…
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Guess who I found today.
That's right! I found NED! EEEEEEEEEEEEE! Aaaahhhhhhhh! Keep your fingers crossed that it stays that way!
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lymph nodes 7 mos later
I had the right inside of my right cheek removed in May and replaced with a skin graft from my thigh. Also, had 30 lymph nodes removed...all negative. 25 rads finished in August. A PET scan in November was negative. This morning, my lymph nodes on the surgery side of my neck are very tender and swollen. Has anyone had this…
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Photo Links
I finally figured out how to do a link to a photo. Once I get it a little more refined I'll post the how to in my expressions for any that might be interested. Mean while, as an example, here's one of my boat that I used to have before the Redfisher I have now. Tailfisher It's a Tailfisher, more a skiff instead of a bay…
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chewing tobacco
Does anyone suffer from oral and/or throat cancer as a result of smokless tobacco, more commonly known as chewing tobacco and/or spit tobacco?
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MY RARE CANCER recently diagnosed
I was diagnosed with sinonasal mucosal melenoma. Statistics are few. I had a continuing sinus infection on one side of my face then was finally sent for endoscopic surgery and path came back this cancer. Shock to both me and surgeon. Oncology head and neck surgeon to do cranial facial sinus obliteration in 2 days. Yes it's…
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Frustrated caregiver
My hubby is 3 1/2 weeks post radiation/chemo. He is doing well and is healing. His throat is barely sore now. My problem is getting him to eat/drink. It took the entire day yesterday for him to drink an 8 oz Boost. No, he says, he has no trouble swallowing but nothing tastes good. I am tired of dealing with the peg and…
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Snowed In
Hi Everybody!! Just sitting here this morning in Texas snowed and iced in. Very unusual for Fort Worth, It happens every couple of years. Temp 13 - wind chill -11. So I finally get a chance to post again. For all you newbies, I used to be a regular on here. I had scc right tonsil Sage 4, W/ mets to lymph nodes. Diagnosed…
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lymph edema, tinnitus, accupuncture, etc . . .
Hi Everyone, thought I'd let you know what I've been trying for what lately. I'm eight months out of chemo/rads, and 5 or 6 from neck dissection. Have been trying acupuncture--5 treatments now--for severe tinnitus. No result to speak of yet, and will be givng it another treatment or two. Well known products tried with no…
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What else can you do to improve your chances ? Please read.
Hi All, In my continual search for information, I found this paper (on this link below) and think it is one of the better and more succinct articles I have found to discuss the use of 'Complimentary Therapies' along with the conventional Surgery, Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy. It is based on clinical trials done in Cancer…
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Thryoid Chills
In different posts, I have seen people mention "Thryoid Chills". Can someone explain what this is? I often get the chills, for no apparent reason, and can not seem to get warm. How to know if this is thryoid related? Thanks, Debbie
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Hair growth
How long does it take for the hair on my head to grow back? I finished up chemo and still have to do the radiation, but winter in northern Nevada with no hair is just cold. Thanks to loops for love for there donation of stocking caps. Anyway I was just wondering how long it took before others got their hair back. Brad