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Hello everyone. Could anyone tell me if their salivary glands have improved over the years as opposed to months please. I need some hope. I am a good 9 months post treatment with RTC for left side tonsil cancer and spread to base of tounge muscle. Aboutba...
My partner is 8 weeks past 6 weeks of radiotherapy for tonsil and lymph node cancer. He did pretty well throughout and didn’t have a feeding tube. He was in a lot of pain after treatment but seemed to be getting a much better, but in the last couple of...
Hi 5 months post op from T2N0M0 tonsil cancer, neck dissection and tors robotic surgery. Thought I'd do a quick update. Baseline ct scan after 3 months clear but lymph node on otherside swollen ( this was also checked at beginning of treatment) so ultrasound...
Hi all, so mum is having her feeding tube fitted today (as an outpatient as they warned she could be in hospital for over a week if she was admitted) She has got to nearly the end of week 6 but cannot tolerate any fortisips and is feeling very week from...
I have a problem with my throat. It’s usually in the morning and that it doesn’t bother too much until when I go to bed It is like a mucus is there anybody have anything like that?
So half way through my eight month after starting treatment and I am looking at either a port into my stomach or a tube down my throat. I can no longer tolerate the supplement drinks and simply cannot get enough sustenance into my body by eating I am...
I saw my surgeon a week ago because I was concerned about a couple of developments. At the side of my flap reconstruction, on the palataoglossal arch (aka tonsillar pillar), this odd looking "blank pocket" appeared. It is a small cavernous hole about...
Hi everybody, I was part of a phase three randomised trial of this drug earlier in the year. Unfortunately I drew the "short straw" and was put on the control arm - docetaxel. After some weeks the hospital halted treatment as I was experiencing unpleasant...
A brief history - It seems hard to believe that this time last year I was feeling swamped by seemingly endless appointments for scans (MRI and CT) biopsy, blood tests, oncologist, ENT consultant, pre op assessment and on. I was 66 years old at the time...
Lost 3 stone after neck dissection and secondary cancer diagnosis want to put weight back on any help, supplements I can take to help with this
