Hi all, sadly I’m on here as to my horror I’ve been diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer for the 2nd time 16 years later, the last time was in 2003 when I was 21, I had a large tumor in my nasal cavity, it took some time to be diagnosed, I went through constant headaches and lack of hearing and nose bleeds that would last for hours, eventually after about 9 months of pain and suffering they eventually put a camera down my nose and found the tumor. I had chemotherapy for 24hrs for 7 days 3 times with a 3 week rest period in between, then 7 weeks of radiotherapy. It took a long time to adjust to all the effects of the illness and treatment it now I’m in the same position again.
I was only diagnosed a couple of weeks ago but after a year of constant inner ear infections and headaches and then swallowing problems since January I eventually pushed and pushed to get referred back to my ent clinic and after a couple of scans and biopsies they finally came back with the my biggest fear that the cancer has returned after 16 years. I was referred to charring cross hospital to see a surgeon as apparently he is the only surgeon in the uk that has ever done this surgery but he has declined surgery as it will be too difficult to carry out so it looks like it will be radiotherapy again, but I’m waiting to find out if I require another mri to check the bone density in my scull and neck as the last lot of radiotherapy was in the same place.
Has anyone else ever suffered from nasopharyngeal cancer on here ?
