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Hello, I am new to these boards and I have a couple of questions about throat cancer. My husband is 35 yrs. old--smokes occasionally and drinks occasionally. Fo...
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| 4 | 01/27/08 |
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Oh Happy Day!
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Whoopeee!!! Today marks the 2nd anniversary for the end of treatment for my Stage IV T1N3M0 Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the right tonsil with 4 node involvement ...
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| 10 | 01/27/08 |
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Sore Throat During Radiation
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Husband has base of tongue cancer and is undergoing chemoradiation x30. A holistic doctor told me of the benefit of aloe vera "gargle", however,...
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| 5 | 01/26/08 |
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Help! Lump on Neck
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Please help. I am so worried about this lump on my neck.I had Cervical cancer 11 years ago which had spread & was in 3 out of 4 of my lymph glands & in ...
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| 13 | 01/23/08 |
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Symptoms after chemo and radia...
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I had a squamous cell tumor on my base of my tongue and also hadcancer in my lymph glands. I completed chemo and radiation in July2007. I am now hav...
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| 2 | 01/22/08 |
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Should I trust my ENT?
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I discovered these yellowish looking spots of tissue on the back of my throat in September of 2007. IThe very next day, I got a severe sore throat. I ...
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| 8 | 01/20/08 |
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Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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My husband has NPC. Found some survivors via the oral section of this site. Any survivors or caregivers of this rare cancer in this section?
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| 4 | 01/19/08 |
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how long wearing feeding tubes...
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I have read posts where some people have had their feeding tubes in for 5 mos. or longer, one was 8 mos. Since radiation therapy is only approx. one month. Does...
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| 17 | 01/19/08 |
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Lump in my neck
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Right now I am a very frightened women. I discovered a lump in the right side of my lower neck, right above the collar bone, some months back. The l...
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| 7 | 01/18/08 |
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diet
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My husband is on day 12 of 35 radiation treatments and on treatment # 3 of Erbitux of which he will receive a total of 7. He has a feeding tube but will n...
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| 6 | 01/16/08 |
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Feeding tube and Glutamine
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I went to see a gastro dr. about a feeding tube but he scared the heck out of me saying people get bad infections inside the stomach all the time from these thi...
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| 14 | 01/12/08 |
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Can anyone PLEASE tell me abou...
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We found out in Oct. that my husband has Cancer Basaloid squamous carcinoma in his throat. I dont know much about this and every time I ask the Dr. he sai...
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| 11 | 01/11/08 |
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lets all share what works and ...
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In reading all the posts it is for sure that we all are going through the same thing in one form or another. What an awful disease. Why don't we just make a...
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| 11 | 01/11/08 |
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Different story to tell
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Two years ago, my husband was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the neck. They did a PET scan, and the primary never did show up. He had one...
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| 8 | 01/09/08 |
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kidney issues after radiation ...
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Yet another problem to wade through! My husband is 2 months out of radiation & chemo. About a month after, his blood tests showed his red cells ...
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| 7 | 01/07/08 |
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tonsil cancer stage 2
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My father was just diagnosed with stage 2 tonsil cancer. We are meeting tomorrow to go over his treatment. He is 85 years old and lives in an assistant living f...
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| 2 | 01/06/08 |
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Recovery Timeline?
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October 2nd, 2007, My husband finished treatment for squamous cell carcinoma of a lymph node in his neck with occult primary. Both Radiation and Chem...
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| 6 | 01/03/08 |
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why not surgery first?
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I've been told that I am Stage 1. T0, N0, M0. 1.5 cm tumor isolated to left tonsil and they plan to radiate one side. No surgery, no chemo.Anyone understand...
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| 4 | 01/03/08 |
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neck Dissection
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Hi my name is Larry. I am approaching 4 months post radiation and chemo treatment. I had been scheduled for a neck dissection but received a call from my surgeo...
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| 1 | 01/02/08 |
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Neck Dissection
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Could someone explain to me why a neck dissection would not be done on every person diagnosed with neck cancer?My husband was diagnosed with squamous cell in th...
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| 3 | 01/01/08 |
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taste bud recovery
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My husband is now 7 weeks post treatment---both radiation & chemo--and is still having difficulty with the taste recovery issue. He is getting very fr...
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| 23 | 12/31/07 |
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Amiphostine Injections
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Has anyone heard of getting daily injection of Amiphostine during radiation to stem off the side effects of mouth sores? Supposed to protect the good cells??Tha...
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| 2 | 12/30/07 |
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recovery time required for nec...
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My husband had tonsil cancer. He had 7 weeks of chemo (erbitux once a week for 7 weeks) and 7 weeks of radiation. He had developed a swelling on the same ...
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| 9 | 12/29/07 |
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jaw surgery after mod rad neck...
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HelloMy fiance had a modfied radical neck dissection in July - he has been doing exercises for his jaw mobility and the doctor told him that this was a sl...
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| 2 | 12/29/07 |
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Depressed and Angry
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Christmas Eve it will be 3 weeks since I completed treatment; 36 radiation sessions and 1 session (2 days) of horrible chemotherapy which hospitalized me for 3 ...
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