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Hi Did anyone use a special pillow during treatment? My 23yo nephew is about to start chemo & RT (brain tumour) and we are looking for anything that might ease his journey. I didn’t use one myself so looking for recommendations. Thanks, Lisa
I am male and quite old…more than 70 … and I have just ( nine days ago)completed 30 days of radiotherapy, following surgery, for some cancer in a tonsil and a few lymph nodes. I had two rounds of surgery, by choice - I had been offered that or chemo and...
Hi All, I am currently 18 mths past neck disection. I had part of my fibia bone used to replace jawbone. I have had problems with walking ever since. My big toe & second toe are now hammertoes. Making it extremely hard to walk on that leg. Xrays of foot...
Hi , I’m new here so I hope I’m doing it right! I found out 2 weeks after my 50th birthday I have tonsil cancer and in lymph nodes )T2N2B) . I’m booked for surgery next week of removal of lymph nodes nodes and Transoral Robotic surgery the same day followed...
I received radiotherapy to the larynx 33 times with concurrent 6 cycles of cisplatin. Needed a tracheotomy, still got it because of internal lymph swelling. Anyone with similar experience?
Hi all . Wondering if anyone can share their experience pre treatment. It feels the treatment is still so far away and my husband 46 recently diagnosed with tonsil and tongue cancer is in severe pain. He cannot swallow now only on shakes all of which...
Hello all. We went for a post surgical check today. Everything is healing well…..but I noticed with my eagle eyes that my husbands staging has changed. Originally it was T4 N0 M 0, and I saw on the computer screen that today it is down as T4a N2b . Naturally...
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My husband completed 6 weeks of chemoradiation in August last year for cancer of the Larynx. The treatment was successful. This morning he showed me a clip on the TV of Noel Edmonds talking about suicide and he started crying. I asked if he wanted to...
I am almost 3 months since the end of my bilateral RT for throat cancer. My question, what I could do with advice on is this. I still have no sense of taste. I use benzadymine mouthwash at least 4/5 times a day and, I'm taking Nystatin just in case...
