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Hi just another query I have. I seem to ask questions all the time. I'm in my ninth week post RT and had neck dissection in march. I was wondering about the scar tissue on my tongue. How long did you find it stayed before it turned the colour of your...
Hi just wee update on the dry mouth. I ordered xylimelts mint flavour. I have been taking two at night and they definitely have helped my dry mouth. Not completely taken it away but a real improvement that I don't have to drink as much at night. Not big...
I just want to get off my chest that I have felt really down today. I have my follow up from my MRI on Thursday and I have been imagining that it has spread. My neck and shoulders have been aching real bad and then I got an awful headache. I have been...
Hi all,it’s been 18 months since my Husband’s diagnosis of stage4 sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma,his Chemo and chemo/radiotherapy did shrink the tumour but unfortunately on Friday we got the news we had been dreading,results of his last MRI scan...
My husband saw his consultant privately this morning to review his post treatment PET scan results as he just couldn’t wait 6 weeks. His primary tumour has gone. His neck lump which is still quite large is not lighting up so it could mean that all the...
Hi all I'm new here and was diagnosed yesterday with Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. I had an MRI yesterday and have to have a PET scan too (I have no idea what that is.) I have survived two Malignant Melanomas in the past, but I was a lot younger then...
On a lovely summer’s afternoon 4 years ago today, aged 63 - and following a needle biopsy on a pesky lump in my neck - I received The Phone Call from my consultant telling me that it wasn’t the news he’d wanted to give me - ‘squamous cell carcinoma, probably...
Morning, First week done thankfully. 30 radio and 5 chemo to go! Skin is already very red on my neck, nausea from the chemo has been worse than I expected and mouth tastes horrendous. Mouth isn’t sore but tastes of bloody metal all the time and...
Hi just some general questions seven weeks after finishing RT for stage 1 tongue cancer and head neck dissection..I was wondering if anyone wakes up every am feeling tongue and cheek swollen until they move it about and do their exercises it feels a little...
Hi Everyone I am sorry it's me again I need your help and advice again. I am nearly 13 weeks post treatment for t4 tonsil cancer. I am nearly 13 weeks post treatment and am trying to eat solid food as I no longer have a PEG fitted. I have tried full...
