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So OH is now 4 weeks since end of radiotherapy for throat cancer and on Saturday and Sunday he didn’t use his feeding tube (in stomach) at all, just ate 5 or 6 little meals each day. He started swallowing water about 2 weeks ago then managed yoghurt...
Hi my husband has just been diagnosed with throat cancer. Still stunned really and have our first appointment on Wed at mount vernon. So much info to take in all at once Just wanted to say hi
My treatment ended Beginning of August (radiotherapy and chemo) for cancer of tonsills and soft palate. I have a g tube for feeding but have been trying soft foods to eat. But my throat is still sore. Is this something I will have to live with or does...
Can you lovely people please tell me how long it took for you to get your appetite back? My husband is currently 3 and a half months since end of treatment. If only he had an appetite he could eat so much more and gain more weight! Also he has some...
Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum (I'm currently being treated for breast cancer and now my husband is poorly). He is in hospital having just had surgery to remove a growth that has been diagnosed as buccal mucosa squamous cell carcinoma. He has...
Hi everyone 18 months post treatment for hpv 16+ tonsil & lymph node T2N1M0 I hosted a Macmillan coffee morning (more like an all day cake fest) in the staffroom at work today. It coincided with me having been back at work for a whole year!! I teach...
I am entering my 4th week post treatment. The last 2 weeks of treatment were tough. The team had told me that things would continue to escalate in the 2-3 weeks after treatment and for a while, things were pretty bad. I had some killer radiation burn...
Hi all back again well Ive got through the dreaded radiotherapy feeling rubbish at moment, getting the side effects of it usual sore throat mouth ulcers and raw weeping skin. I’m coping and I hope day by day I’ll start to feel better again, more treatments...
Hi everyone I thought I'd update on my husband's situation. Briefly he was given a dire prognosis in Jan'22 of inoperable/ untreatable T4N3 cancer in Hypopharynx. ....perhaps a few weeks, maybe months to live. The tumour is around his carotid artery...
Hello everyone My oncology after ca left tonsil ( had spread to cervical lymph node) was in 1994. Throughout this period to present day I have experienced mounting after effects involving chronic sinusitis, parotid gland, blockage Eustachian tube, eye...
