When you finished your treatment of chemo/ radiation for your hpv pos head and neck- when you did your follow up scan , were you all clear of your cancer or not? The closer I get to my pet scan the more worried I get. TYIA.
Hello all, my lovely husband has base of tongue cancer T4N1MO HPV16. He has 35 radiotherapy and 3 chemo treatments over 7 weeks. He has just finished his second week and is struggling so much, Exhausted, very down, sticky saliva, pain in throat, pain...
Hi, Can you advise what happens after you have been told that your treatment was successful and you now have follow ups for 5 years until you are officially Cancer Free. What do they do at these follow ups and downs you have anymore scans etc? Just...
Hi all or as I put it my extended family I'm having RIG fitted this Monday and was just asking as anyone experienced any difficulties with the RIG regarding feeding, sleeping with and cleaning etc?....I was hoping it was going to be a PEG but it was...
Can anyone interpret what this staging means. ? cTxN1M0 This is written in my reports I’m not sure what it means.
Anyone used these
Choices choices Offline Valley1 20 hours ago Hi so I had a call yesterday to ask me to go to see my original surgeon who removed a benign tumour close to my spine... I had an mri and biopsies done recently on 2 new tumours in my neck...and...
Really sorry to ask. But can someone talk me through what I can expect to happen at a dental extraction appointment post radiotherapy? I have asked the hospital but have not got any answers and my appointment is this week coming. I’ve asked in person...
I’ve been given this and also Oramorph for when things hot up. I wondered if people had experience of how well the Oxetacaine worked?
A few months ago I posted on here as my husband's first PET scan post treatment (Larynx cancer) showed up two lit up areas but we were told it was probably scarring form the radiotherapy. He had another PET scan 2 weeks ago. We got two letters from the...
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