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Hi All - just a quick update to summarise my last 2 weeks of treatment and I'm currently half way through week 2 recovery. In short: - Painful by end of wk5 and started oramorph during weekend before wk6 - Mucous became annoying in wk 6 and was a...
Hi All - quick update: Finished wk2 Yay!! Losing taste (or changing taste) by the day - Boo!!. Still eating though and I'm about to have a fillet steak (maybe the last in a while...?) . Despite a sore mouth (left side, mainly gums) and feeling a ...
Has anyone heard or have experience of Gene Therapy for damaged saliva glands due to having radiotherapy treatment for tonsil cancer?
Hi everyone. I saw the ENT surgeon and oncologist yesterday in Bradford. I am officially a head and neck cancer of unknown primary patient. The examination showed an irregularity on my left tonsil and left tongue base. I will be having TORS surgery to...
Hello all I have cancer in the neck and mouth, right bronchi and lung. I also have a collapsed spine, and heart disease. I am not under treatment (no questions about that please) and in Palliative Care at home. The reason I am posting today is to...
Just a quick note to say that the anti HPV cancer recurrence vaccine trial (HARE 40) I was due to start a couple of weeks ago has been postponed. Having given very much an armful of blood for the baseline and undergoing various tests to gauge my suitability...
Hi All, i have just ordered Polpolis liquid, the one recommended by Dani, My question is, how much and how to take daily, as a general supplement? Thanks Ray.
Hi. Got diagnosed with tongue cancer 5 weeks ago. Since then have had MRi and CT. Xray and bloods. Got a call yesterday for pre op in 2 weeks but haven't heard from a doctor or anyone to know what they are going to do and what the results of the scan...
Hi All you lovely people I got diagnosed with tonsil primary and lymph node secondary cancer at the beginning of June (HPV).I I am aged 55. I have completed 30 sessions of radiotherapy and 3 out of 6 chemo. However I spent the last 2 weeks in hospital...
Just a very quick update on progress with my recovery, for anyone who’s interested. It was two years ago this week that I received the diagnosis that initially floored me and set me on, what in here is, a common path of treatment - TORS followed by 5...
