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Hi everyone. Just wanted to update you all on hubby's progress. We are now 15 months post treatment. Although we still have check ups every few months it is starting to feel a different life now. However we do remember how terrified we were back in...
Hi Everyone I'm just reaching the end of my second week RT. The one massive negative so far is that I have lost all my taste! This is making it impossible to eat anything and I've already lost 4 kilos. Much as I try I just gag if I try and force anything...
So 8 weeks post Chemoradiation treatment, I go for a follow up with my Oncologist last Friday. At which he shares with me that during the planning of my treatment whilst viewing my scans, they noticed a ‘nodule’ on my thyroid, what the actual!!! And he...
Hello everyone. I had a resection to remove an SCC from my tongue in 2010 which was successful and didn't require any RT or CT. The whole thing was sorted in five weeks and I was talking and eating normally within three months. I know I got off very lightly...
Hello My mum was diagnosed with tonsil cancer stage two in January and she had 34 radiotherapy and a little byt of chemotherapy. Her last radiotherapy was 1 st of May.She is at home now.She see regularly doctors and nurse is coming to her house.She...
Hi again, Sorry more questions I begin my treatment on 24th July, first day of radiotherapy and first week of chemo cisplatin. I have been informed that I will be having my RIG fitted on 8th August at 1.30pm with 1 night in hospital. I also have chemo...
Hi, recently diagnosed with HPV throat cancer. Found a lump on the left of my neck around 8 weeks ago, diagnosed as cancer after biopsy. Tongue base mucosectomy found primary on right side of the tongue. Surgery not an option due to location, so radical...
Hi - Seriously confused. Went for 2nd opinion for treatment plan for my husbands SSC P16+. He is 53 and we have a 2 year old... we are scared to death. It's in the right tonsil and lymph node. Cancer Center 1 did not suggest surgery because they couldn...
My husband has completed week 2 of 6 week program of treatment for hpv 16 positive tongue cancer. First week was chemo and radiotherapy and he was pretty wiped out last weekend. He is slightly better this weekend although very tired. He is starting to...
I'm post head and neck cancer 2 months ago.
