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I have my first post treatment PET Scan on Tuesday to see if my chemo/radiation treatments removed all of my HPV+ SCC. I’m terrified at the moment and am honestly looking for words of encouragement. At my one month follow up my oncologist said everything...
Hi all 4 weeks post chemo radiation for tonsil cancer Still feel in pain in mouth. Low and miserable. Surely I should feel better now ? Someone please give me hope ! Will start counselling when I can talk for a length at a time ! Any advice re: best...
I managed to get hold of the secretary for my ent speciliat he said that my speciliat os very through and wudnt beat about the bush of telling me if he thought there was something sinister and is probably jsut doing biopsy and scan to close the book ...
Hi lovely people, hope you are getting there, or enjoying fully your after treatment life. its been long since I last wrote, but i am good and enjoying food as much i can. I saw my oncologist last week and he is happy with me. I am not sure if you...
It’s really good to see people checking in on their treatment anniversaries to report their progress, so here’s my contribution. (I certainly found this very encouraging in my early days of treatment and recovery.) Diagnosed with tonsil cancer in mid...
HPV16+ . 2 large neck masses . FNA then CT / MRI / PET . Unknown primary . No tonsils . Completed neck dissection and tongue mucosectomy last Friday in attempt to find primary tumour . Material in pathology . MDT indicate likely full course of RT without...
My husband’s Dr called this morning with good news, his biopsy was negative, so relieved!
Hello All, I have one day left of Radiotherapy so Yay to that! However, I need to decide whether to have a PEG or not as my nutritional intake is really terrible, in fact I fear I have become somewhat anorexic in terms of the generalised fear and disgust...
My Dad is terminal with his Sinus Cancer and we don’t know how long he’s got! My mother complains about the smell coming from his nose and mum is making him feel like a Lepper, keeeps going on about it! Any suggestions that might help with this?....
Hi everyone, So it's been 2 weeks since my treatment ended and thought I'd update you all to see if the path of recovery is near to yours? Main thing is the thick brown mucus that just congests all of the mouth, horrid stuff ,I use nebuliser but sometimes...
