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Yellow Stripe Center on Tongue
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Hello Friends!One more adjuvant treatment week and my hubby is done! Whew. I can't wait until the PET scan provides the harmonious R word a...
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| 3 | 04/27/08 |
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stuff i can try to do before t...
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told 2 weeks ago stage 4 tonsil cancer so im reading everything i can Ive read glutimine helps should i start taking it now?.Is there something i can do to my n...
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| 6 | 04/26/08 |
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over 2 weeks since i was told
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2 weeks ago 15 minutes with sugical oncologist. Who open my moth looked in with a flashlight and said advanced tonsil cancer then clipped a few pieces out....
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| 4 | 04/26/08 |
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i just have to ask...
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...has anyone else wondered why the icons on this message board for Caregivers are female and the Patients are male? you would think with todays tech...
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| 5 | 04/26/08 |
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Just Venting
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Well today was radiation treatment number 9 and hubby is not doing so well. I call him every day from work at about 9:30 to make sure he is up and eats br...
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| 12 | 04/25/08 |
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cancer larynx mets lungs advan...
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please any help would be great
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| 2 | 04/25/08 |
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Husband will not do what Dr's ...
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Hello,My Husband is 2 weeks into treatment has had one round of Chemo and 13 rounds of radiation. He is having a lot of trouble with Nausea is will not do the w...
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| 13 | 04/24/08 |
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Radiation (Tomo-therapy) Pain
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Yesterday my husband had his first rad. He was complaining of slightly stonger pain in his throat earlier that day. But after his treatment, he says...
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| 2 | 04/24/08 |
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A New Problem
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I had pharyngeal cancer diagnosed last November (not sure which stage) but the Dr. said it was pretty "bulky." No surgery, but finished 33 rad. treatm...
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| 3 | 04/23/08 |
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Updates?
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I am just wondering how everyone else that is going through the treatments right now are doing.My husband is in his second week of radiation (6th treatment toda...
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| 15 | 04/22/08 |
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Cetuximab
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A family member has been offered a trial involving cetuximab. Although he has esophageal cancer, has anyone taken it for head and neck cancers and can offe...
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| 4 | 04/19/08 |
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Surgery Under Tongue w/Skin Gr...
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Well, I'm in remission for nasophyrangeal cancer, but there's a small area under my tongue that the surgeon wants to take out and will use a skin graft ...
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| 2 | 04/18/08 |
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PET clear! Getting ready to b...
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We found out yesterday that my husband's PET scan was clear!!!!! So that would make his official stage T1N2bM0. I still can't believe we got...
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| 1 | 04/18/08 |
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Loss Voice
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My husband has not started his treatment yet but for what ever this is worth---try a humidifier at his bedside for miosture. Be sure to drain, rinse and change ...
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| 3 | 04/17/08 |
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Tomo Therapy
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Hey Guys, Thanks for the feed back on the tomotherapy. I have done a lot of researching and reading. My friends, in the health field,were trying to research if ...
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| 3 | 04/17/08 |
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Loss Voice
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My husband has tonsil cancer spread to lymph node on left side of neck. He had 2 does of cisplatin (one more at the end of treatment) and has 9 more radiation ...
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| 9 | 04/17/08 |
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pain after surgery
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I was diagnosed with Tonsil cancer stage IV ...I had a neck dissection and tonsillectomy on feb 26th, loosing the nerve to the right side of my tongue, shortly ...
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| 2 | 04/17/08 |
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Vertigo and Radiation
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I'm into my second week of radiation for base of tongue and began to experience VERTIGO which I have never had in my life. Did receive some meds but t...
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| 4 | 04/16/08 |
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Tomo-therapy
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Please keep the info coming. I am inquiring for my husband. I've got a couple of health care professionals checking it out for me. We would have to move out...
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| 18 | 04/16/08 |
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"Newby" Husband has tonsil can...
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Thank all of you for your messages. My husband and I don't like surprises and you all are a wealth of info. When we get through this situation we will ...
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| 6 | 04/16/08 |
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update on the last few days of...
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he drove himself to treatment on monday...and his doctor chided him for doing so! thankfully they moved his radiation to an early morning appt. until we a...
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| 2 | 04/15/08 |
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sinonasal undifferentiated car...
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Hello! I'm a healthy, 45-year-old male very recently diagnosed with SNUC. While the doctors review my tests and decide treatment, I wondered if anyone has a...
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| 14 | 04/14/08 |
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Tomo-Therapy
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Anyone have experience with this type of radiation? My husband starts this treatment on April 22nd. I have read about it, but wondered if anyone has...
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| 2 | 04/14/08 |
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"Newby"-- husband has tonsil c...
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I have been reading the message board for a couple of weeks. You are all wonderful to share your stiories, encouragement and advice. I am scared to death and ha...
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| 16 | 04/14/08 |
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Spoke to soon
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Hi Friends:Well I spoke too soon. The med onc removed my hubbies 5FU infusion a day early as mucositis was taking over. He has felt comple...
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| 1 | 04/13/08 |
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