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My husband had HPV positive base of tongue cancer 2 years ago. Treated with chemoradiotherpy followed by a neck dissection. All good except for usual swallowing difficulties at times and dry mouth. He has been away from home for work and called me yesterday...
Hi there, I am 49 years old female, that was formally diagnosed none HPV tonsil cancer, just couple of weeks ago, having found that in the lymph node originally. I never smoked, drank occasionally and have health diet and life style. had surgery to...
Hi has anyone been diagnosed with this? my sons had a visible lump since at least November last year. It could have been there before but too small to see. Just had a letter saying he’s on the waiting list for surgery but that there is a small risk...
Hi all just a quick update .. had my scan results and meeting with my specialist on Monday … and got the all clear on my Petscan and MRI , so relieved to be able to to report this It was so odd sitting outside the door waiting to go in to find out your...
Hi all ,me again 17 months post treatment and not doing too bad ,apart from ,I've recently started getting red soreness on the side edges of my tongue at the back ,not sure if it's because my tongue has been dry with the weather or that I maybe subconsciously...
Hi all, I don’t come on here too often talking about my own symptoms, but something strange popped up last week that caught my eye. Last Monday I was having soup with some toasted sourdough bread…i still struggle quite a bit with breads (and, spicy...
I seem to be suffering from more tiredness and low mood just now, worse four months after neck radiotherapy than I have experienced up till now. In January after 4 months of waiting to find out about lumps on neck, I had surgery on tongue, tonsillectomy...
My husband is a year post chemo/radio for HPV + SCC of the tonsil and metastasis to neck lymphs. He showed no disease in January but last few weeks has been noticing a tingling sensation where the large lymph was in his neck and yesterday felt a pea size...
Hi, I’ve completed 23/30 radiotherapy sessions. I’ve applied Flamigel throughout but last couple days skin on neck is drying out and peeling and stings when I apply gel. just seeing if there is anything else I can be doing to help both for last 4...
T4 N2 M0 Lest and Central Tongue Base SCC Hi All My treatment is due to start in a couple of weeks (12th August) with Chemotherapy Cisplatin (Cisp) with radiotherapy sometime thereafter. I want to be proactive if I can and to start looking into...
