Throat cancer

Hi Keith

Been diagnosed twice ....Tonsil and colorectal

Not the greatest of news to receive.

Ask anything 24/7 always someone about....plenty of support and advice

Peter

Hi Keith and welcome. 
SCC of the throat is an aggressive cancer but the good news is that it’s eminently curable. 
I’m approaching six years clear, next week as it happens. 
Stay with us. There’s lots of help here.

Good luck with the scope tomorrow 

Thanks, I am kinda freaked out. The lump in my neck just spread and grew very fast.

Natural to be stunned by the news, endoscopy should tell oncology more tomorrow.

Have medics given you a staging for the cancer? Type? HPV16+? 

Keith9010 said:

Thanks, I am kinda freaked out. The lump in my neck just spread and grew very fast

That will be a secondary cancer and the lymph node is doing its job stopping it from spreading away from your neck. 
The mostcommon cause is human papilloma virus and the classic presenting sign is an enlarged neck node. 
HPV positive throat cancer is hugely sensitive to radiation. 
You're bound to be freaked out but just hold into the fact that there are so many people here who have been through the same and are well. 
You’ll feel better once your treatment plan is in place I promise xx

Hi Keith ours  cancer do have a good cure rate as others have said you need to ask is the cancer HPV positive. The 

scope tomorrow not too bad we do get used to having them my trust has the camera linked to a video and I used to watch it back. On e you get a treatment plan in place thjngs seem to calm down m yes the cancers are aggressive but so is the treatment I had 35 radiotherapy and 2 chemo I was 61 now 67 and living a good life. 
my only symptom was a lump in my neck which did its job at holding the cancer at bay my primary was in my tonsil and by time treatment had started I had 7 lymph nodes involved. It’s a classic symptom of HPV driven head and neck cancer I had no other symptoms 

I’m still here to tell the tale. best wishes for tomorrow. 

Hazel 

Interesting and thank you.

Ayup.   It is fixable.   It’s gonna be tough going through the treatment.    It sucks.   The side effects are a nightmare.   There is only one issue you must keep eating.   I opted to not to have the peg feeding tube and forced the supplements down.   That was a fight! But I’m glad I didn’t have the tube but you must eat!  And that’s not as obvious as it sounds.      
it’s all very straight forward at the beginning.    The mask thing will freak you out a bit.  You’ll get used to it.  
the slime is probably the worst thing.    Don’t be shy you will coughing up pints of the worst gunk.  it’s not pretty.  
the worst period is the 2 weeks after the treatment finishes. You will be having chemo in conjunction with your radio therapy.   The chemo doesn’t really kick in until you’ve had your last dose.   You will feel like crap for a couple of weeks.   You must keep eating! Or at least swallowing.   Prepare yourself for a fight!

my cousin was 6 wks behind me with the same throat cancer.   He died a week ago.      
If you keep swallowing you’ll be fine but it’s a struggle.

the supplements saved my life but I still went down to 55kgs and looked like a turkey!

good luck.    You’ll be fine!  90% success rate in most cases.   
but…prepare yourself it’s gonna be a fight.  xx

Not yet 

I figured that. I'm already a slim guy (167 lbs) That's gonna suck, but I do eat tons of peanut butter. I got that radiation therapy after prostate cancer. I'll start packing on pounds before treatment.