NPC - treatment done!

HI All,

I posted on here around September last year hoping for advice on how to make my mom's NPC Stage 4 (only locally advanced) treatment better. I've used all the wonderful tips that people have given and she has completed treatment! She did 35 rads and was only able to do 1 session of adjuvent chemo as she developed a rash from her feeding tube that cause the onc to hold off on the rest of the chemo. She also got some swelling on her face which worried the oncologist and he ordered an earlier CT Scan. The CT showed some post treatment damage, but because of all the swelling, it was difficult to tell whether all of the cancer was gone or if it was radiation scarring. She also had a subsequent MRI which showed no tumour, but either cancer/swelling. It’s scary not knowing but the onc followed up with an EBV blood test, and it showed that it was no longer in her blood. He said that in his experience, when a patient tests clear for EBV in their blood post treatment (as it existed before treatment), it usually means the cancer is gone or that the chance of it coming back is very low. He therefore cancelled the last 2 rounds of chemo. We are hoping it is radiation damage but they will watch her closely with another scan in 3 months. THANKS FOR EVERYONE’S HELP ON THIS FORUM. I hope she gets to many many more years of being cancer free.

Cheers