Hi my scc cancer has returned. And I am due to start chemotherapy on the 6/12/2021. My first session is 6 hours. Anyone else had the same treatment
Hi Clace if you could pop a bit more info on there’s a few on here who have had reoccurrence. Sorry can’t help I did have chemo but that was in conjunction with radiotherapy.
Hie long ago was your treatment originally and where ? Were you h p v positive?
Best wishes Hazel
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I had. Radiotherapy between April and June this year. I don't even know much about my chemo treatment. My first is the 6/12 then 3 weeks later that's all I know at the moment
I've never heard of chemo as a stand-alone treatment for H&N cancer before so not really able to comment, could you (as Hazel suggested) give us a bit more detail?
I had a recurrance after six and a half years but that was treated with surgery, radio/chemo was never an option, though possibly might have been if I'd opted for just palliative care I guess.
Metastatic SCC diagnosed 8th October 2013. Modified radical neck dissection November, thirty-five radiotherapy fractions with 2xCisplatin chemo Jan/Feb 2014. Recurrence on larynx diagnosed July 2020 so salvage laryngectomy in September 2020.
There are a few people here who are on immunotherapy for recurrence. What chemo are you on?
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Triple therapy with platinum, cetuximab and 5-FU are the current NICE recommendations I understand.
OR immunotherapy.
If you look here there are a few threads
https://community.macmillan.org.uk/search?q=Immunotherapy&group=100#serpsort=date%20desc
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Ok. Let us know hiw you get on. We’re all here to help you along. Best wishes
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
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