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Hello again, Another question - sorry - my husband is due to start his radiotherapy/chemo treatment in April - he will have the planning apps, dentist, etc and they said this should take about 4 weeks, then the treatment for 6 weeks. We had a holiday...
Hi everyone, hope you are all doing OK x Well we went for the follow up app today after hubby had his op 3 weeks ago. The news wasn't great!! He had 35 lymph nodes taken out and some contained squamous cell cancer and had started to spread out....
Hi everyone. I am new here. I was diagnosed with SCC base of tongue & right neck lymph nodes on 31 January. Initial treatment plan was 6 weeks x 20 minutes of Radiation with Chemo Week 1&4. Following a PET scan that has changed to Induction Chemo x5 with...
Hi all, Has anyone else been referred to Onkohealth by their NHS care team? I am wondering if it is worth doing... At the moment (start of treatment) it just feels like another commitment to keep track of. Thanks Steve
After being told that chemo radiation has not been successful for my husband, he had his first immunotherapy treatment of nivolumab 3 weeks ago. For the first 10 days he had some mild d iarrhoea, but otherwise he was okay, and much better than he was...
Hi.....my husband has cancer of the lower throat ( hypopharynx) ,inoperable and unable to have radiotherapy/chemotherap. He has received 7 immunotherapy infusions so far (every 6 weeks). I have noticed that his breath smells lately ( of poo ): ) which...
Hi, anyone had a Laryngectomy? I've had neck dissection and Radiotherapy which has left me with silent aspiration, I've had Pneumonia 14 times in 18 months and to stop the Aspiration Pneumonia it's been suggested by my Maxifacial Surgeon to eliminate...
I've been researching cream to apply during radiotherapy. Oloa vera has been used for sunburn, when my hubby asked the radiotherapist if he could use Oloa they said just use the Epimax paraffin subscribed. Just wondered what everyone else had done or...
It is 18 months since I finished my treatment for base of tongue and neck cancer. Physically I feel fine. My eating and drinking are almost back to pre cancer days. I still have a dry mouth and my sense of taste us still altered. My problem now is that...
I had surgery for ACC of the left submandibular gland in July 2021. The surgery was followed by 33 sessions of radiotherapy. In December 2022 I had a PET ST scan followed by a head and Neck MRI. These were ll repeated 2 weeks ago together with biopsies...
