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Head And Neck Cancer

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Head And Neck Cancer Discussions

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Treatment for a 95 year old Mi...
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My husband and I are having trouble figuring out why the Drs. are doing radiation and putting in a feeding tube for a Man who is dying from Old Age.  He al...
308/04/07 Message Rating
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Squamous cell carcinoma
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My husband was diagnosed with squamous cc June of this yr. He has completed two of three chemo rounds. Two types of chemo are given in one day and he is sent ho...
607/24/07 Message Rating
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Small Lump In Neck
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Hiya ..I am sixteen years old and I was just curious but haven't really considered it before like this that I have a small lump in my neck about 2 cm b...
107/23/07 Message Rating
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Lost taste buds?
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I am post treatment finished in July06 for nasopharyngeal Stage IV.  I had 6 weeks of IMRT concurrent with 2 of 6 scheduled rounds of cisplatin.  I th...
307/23/07 Message Rating
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Q on neck dissection
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Hello-I am new here, just found you. I was diagnosed with stage 4 squamous cell w/unknown primary in Jan. The usual (rightside) neck lump. It was excized. I did...
507/19/07 Message Rating
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can someone please help me
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well i am a 22 yr old female and i have always had a stuffy nose and couldn't breath well. But about a year ago my tonsils became enlarged and i have a hard...
207/11/07 Message Rating
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Traveling while Neutropenic
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Hello all, My dad has just received his third chemo (erbitux, carboplatin & taxol) treatment and they told him he's neutropenic. (This was just earlier ...
007/10/07 Message Rating
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TOMO vs Trilogy Radiation Ther...
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I was diagnosed w/ Sqaumous Cell Carcinoma of the left tonsil on June 4, 2007.  The first hospital recommended Trilogy Radiation (which of course is what t...
707/09/07 Message Rating
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Just diagnosed, what next?
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I had a tonsil that tested positive for squamous cell carcinoma last week.  The docs then did a 'radical neck dissectomy', tested 44 lymph nodes, f...
707/07/07 Message Rating
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Dry Mouth and Throat
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There is a wonderful solution available for dry mouth and throat at aloedrops.com.  Please give them a try because we have heard from three different ...
107/05/07 Message Rating
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Eating sugar and ice cream
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I've read several messages that reference not eating sugar or ice cream but I can't seem to find at what point the patient should stop eating these things or th...
107/04/07 Message Rating
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neck dissection
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My husband was diagnosed with base of tounge squamous cell carcinoma in late Jan. of '07. He had 40 radiation treatments and 4 chemo treatments with cisplat...
607/02/07 Message Rating
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How to Eat Again? Help Reques...
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Hello to all who have been through this:My husband is over 2 months past rad and chemo treatment for Stage 3 Base of Tongue cancer.  He is no longer in pai...
907/01/07 Message Rating
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Beginning Chemo - Metastatic S...
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Hi all, I posted this in another area because I'm not sure how this works and I think I might have posted in the wrong place originally. My step father was j...
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Metastatic SCC - beginning che...
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Hi everyone, My step father was just diagnosed with metastatic SCC. He has a lesion on his tonsil and lump in his neck. He starts chemo on Monday. He gets a PE...
306/30/07 Message Rating
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scar tissue from treatment
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My husbands recent cat scan, two years post treatment for head and neck, shows 3 nodules in the lungs.....we are in a wait and see mode at this time. Hoping it...
206/28/07 Message Rating
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Post treatment mouth blister "...
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I am new the board.  My thoughts and prayers are with all of you.  I am 3 months post-treatment for Stage IVa SCC of lingual tonsil.  Received 33...
206/25/07 Message Rating
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tonsil cancer
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Hi there,My mum had her tonsil removed 2 weeks ago and on further investigation they found it to contain cancer, to be honest i was at the hospital when they to...
306/22/07 Message Rating
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getting better
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hi just wanted to know if anyone has had cancer of the larnex and gotten better from chemo. My mom has had two treatments of chemo and im optimistic. The doctor...
306/21/07 Message Rating
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getting better
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hi just wanted to know if anyone has had cancer of the larnex and gotten better from chemo. My mom has had two treatments of chemo and im optimistic. The doctor...
006/21/07 Message Rating
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I'm so THIRSTY! Dry mouth_ pos...
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I am sixteen month out of radiation. For the past two months I have been experiencing a strange sensation on my tongue ( actually the entire mouth-even under th...
406/17/07 Message Rating
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Swallowing problem post chemo/...
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I just finished treatment for layngeal cancer, continuing to have a problem swallowing, recently was told that radiation shrunk my larynx and I may not be able ...
306/17/07 Message Rating
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need clarification, confused, ...
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i am a 44 y.o. registered nurse, i went in to get a lump on my back checked out, i have had a bilateral mastectemy for breast cancer in 98, i have had no proble...
106/16/07 Message Rating
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Sinonasal Undifferentiated Car...
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Hello.  This is my first time using this message board.  I was diagnosed with SNUC in late 2003.  I had surgery and Proton Beam radiation and hav...
306/11/07 Message Rating
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radiation hair loss
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I just completed treatments--chemo+radiation. I lost half the hair on the back of my head. Did YOUR hair grow back after radiation therapy? I'm female, so j...
706/09/07 Message Rating
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