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Anyone here with tongue cancer? Thanks
just finished chemo a month ago. Radiation almost 3 weeks has Anyone have this diagnosis what was your experience
Hello you lovely people. Firstly, thank you so much for those who advised that my husband should have the rig fitted, omg - it really has been his saviour. So basically we are just over half way through chemo + radiotherapy - just 13 more radios and...
Greetings. I'm an older guy, Scotland, otherwise fit, but with a long standing lichen planus, then hyperplastic candidiasis, lesion on the side of my tongue. Over Christmas and the New year this started to change rapidly and grew into a cauliflower like...
Hi all Off to have my dental assessment tomorrow, so worried that teeth have to come out , I've got a few root canals and a wisdom tooth still in hiding , hoping all is ok . Plus just read radiotherapy consent booklet ,it's so frightening of all the...
Still waiting to hear from The Christie re the start of Carl's treatment. One of the many things I am worried about is getting from Crewe to Manchester daily for a few weeks. I do drive but not in the best of health myself. If I manage to get hospital...
Hi everyone, well I met my Oncoligist 2 weeks ago today and I was told the intention was to cure me, last week I had my mask made and I commence with radiotherapy on the 10th Feb which is 3 months from seeing my GP. I have been told they do not have...
hi everyone me again, post 6 weeks treatment now and just started introducing bits of food through the mouth ,that is still trial and error ( more error really) main nutrition still through RIG. I have no 'normal' saliva but a really thick version...
Hello. I’m new here! My son was diagnosed this week after a CT scan, biopsy and MRI scan. He is booked in for 8-9 hour surgery in 2 weeks to remove half of his tongue and the lymph nodes on both sides of his neck, and reconstruct his tongue with a skin...
I wonder how long it takes for wbc to get higher. My husband’s treatments ended about a year ago, now he’s on keytruda, immunotherapy. The number is only 3.0 maybe it takes a long time to go higher. If we go somewhere I’m afraid he’ll catch something...
