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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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7 more days of treatment!
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7 days to go...and seems like it will be the hardest. his fentynal patch has been boosted to 100mcg and i am very concerned about him driving himself to t...
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| 8 | 04/13/08 |
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Positive Adjuvant Treatment
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Hello Friends:Just wanted to drop a positive note to everyone about my husbands progress. The last visit with the med onc was great. He won't sa...
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| 4 | 04/09/08 |
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epiglottis/granulation at peg ...
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Hi new to this site. wished I had found it at beg of treatment, so much good advice from people who has actually been through it. Im from Britain so terms ...
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| 3 | 04/08/08 |
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radiation recovery times
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I underwent 31 radiation treatments to my neck that ended 3-17-08. Chemotherapy was also part of my treatment using cisplatin. I am still suffering ...
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| 8 | 04/07/08 |
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saliva Glands
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Does anyone have an advice on protecting the saliva glands during radiation treatment? The Dr said for sure my husband will lose one side and the other will be ...
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| 17 | 04/07/08 |
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erbitux
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I had written previosly about my brother in law being treated with erbitux. I guess they do use it on its own for recurring(sp?) cancer in head and neck c...
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| 18 | 04/06/08 |
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bilateral neck dissection ques...
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I have been here before but not for awhile. My husband had squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with occult primary. He had some treatment 2...
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| 1 | 04/06/08 |
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sore tongue
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Hello !My husband was diagnised with primary cancer being at the base of his tongue and then ging to his lymph nodes on the right side of his neck. He has gone ...
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| 5 | 04/05/08 |
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First check up
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It's been 36 days today since I finished radiation. Sitting here in my hotel room next to MD Anderson in Houston relaxing because my first ct-scan of my hea...
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| 12 | 04/03/08 |
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my throat
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Hi i;am mary; i;am new here, looking for info. I had some bumps in my ...
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| 15 | 04/02/08 |
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