Husbands Cancer Diagnosis

Hi don’t stress chemo radiotherapy is the gold standard treatment. It’s not unusual for lymph nodes  to be on both sides i. I had radiotherapy to both sides 75% on the tonsil side and 25% on other side to mop up any stray cells Best advise if he’s offered a peg take it or if his trust does like mine n g feeding tubes consent to that mine was fitted end if week 3 I had it for a total of 6 weeks it was my lifesaver. Our cancers respond extremely well to treatment,. Thank you for reading my blog hooe it helped. Refer back when you need to plus we all will help in here. As for opposite side being affected it was discovered by my pet Ct scan that I had 7 lymph nodes and my soft palette  was affected.

keep off Google stick with us that’s our mantra. 

Hazel xx

Hi Hazel, it’s getting to that time of night when my brain goes into overdrive. Just wondering if you had induction chemo. Spoke with my husbands CNS today and she mentioned induction chemo 3 cycles what does this mean? Will he been admitted for these of day unit chemo? 

Hi keep your brain active watch trashy box sets nothing too complicated and don’t stress. My chemo was delivered once every 3 weeks day 1 day 21 and the final one would have been day 35 but I only had 2 as Larry the big lump had disappeared . Mine was approx a 10 hour infusion I was in at 0830 on the chemo ward and also had radiotherapy the same day. Did the cns mention that radiotherapy would be done alongside the chemo the same week. Induction chemo as far as I know is administered prior to radiotherapy in a block sometime via a pump that starts at hospital then continue at home for up to 4  days. Then a few weeks later either further chemo and radiotherapy concurrently like mine. Or just radiotherapy i would ask your cns if that’s what she meant. 
remember keep off Dr Google and don’t overthink everything. Easy to say hard to do

hazel xx

Thank you Hazel. I will double check when she rings again next week. Planning on trying to switch off this evening. Also Just wondering if you noticed swallowing difficulties before your diagnosis? 

Thankyou for being patient with your responses.

Becky

Hi Becky. No problem. No I didn’t have any issues prior to treatment starting my cancer was encapsulated inside my tonsil so wasn’t any hinderance to my eating or drinking. It had spread to soft palate but again didn’t interfere  with my swallow. But from my years on here it has affected some people so try not to stress the treatment will do its job. I couldn’t swallow at all by end if week 3.  But has you’ve read in my blog I have a fabulous life now. 
Your welcome   you cant beat first hand experience we’ve been there cried at 0200 on the kitchen floor then got our self’s uo and started a new day. 

hugs Hazel xx

Bexx85 said:

Spoke with my husbands CNS today and she mentioned induction chemo 3 cycles what does this mean?

Hi Bex. Induction chemo is used to reduce the size of the cancer before radiotherapy so that the dose can be reduced avoiding damage to surrounding tissues. 

Thanks Dani. I didn’t really understand what was meant by induction chemo. 

Becky.

Hi Bethie, I meant to ask how your husband is recovering from his tonsillectomy and biopsies. Did he stay in hospital for a few days? Is he managing to eat and drink? 

Bex. Take all these questions to the next appointment so that everything is explained and make sure you understand. 

Hello Bexx85,as others have said, try to resist Googling as there is a lot of out of date, alarmist or plain wrong info online. Stick with this forum, I found it so helpful & supportive.

Best wishes to you and your husband

Catriona