A question for tongue cancer patients

Thinking positive!
Lisa
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White
Not to make you worry, but radiation has pretty severe side effects. However, it can be done, endured and it does get better. My husband is over 2 months post treatment which involved an Erbitux infusion once a week during his 7 weeks of radiation.
The rad. side effects were by far worse than the chemo. Be specific with your radiation oncologist and insist he /she tell you EVERYTHING you need to know. If your dad is like my husband, he will find that most of what you are told is true, but somethings are not as bad as expected. PK0 -
Why not?pk said:White
Not to make you worry, but radiation has pretty severe side effects. However, it can be done, endured and it does get better. My husband is over 2 months post treatment which involved an Erbitux infusion once a week during his 7 weeks of radiation.
The rad. side effects were by far worse than the chemo. Be specific with your radiation oncologist and insist he /she tell you EVERYTHING you need to know. If your dad is like my husband, he will find that most of what you are told is true, but somethings are not as bad as expected. PK
Lisa
The gold standard for this cancer is Radiation and chemo. For very minor stages, "In Situ" they sometimes only use radiation. What stage is his cancer in and why are they not using chemo? Then you go from there.0
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