Hello! My husband was diognosed with stage 4B Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cancer in September 2006. He has been doing chemo(cycplatin) every3 weeks and just finished radiation January 25. 39 radiation treatments. His first round of chemo in October 2006 was cycplatin, docatexile and a 5 day treatment of 5-fu. The three made the tumor grow so they stopped the other and went to cycplatin and Erbitux. The tumor had extention into sinus and bone it literally ate the bone it was attached to lymphnodes on both sides of neck where involved, We found out in December that they had no choice but to radiate the brain stem, the tumor was attached and if they didn't it would kill him. We have to wait for the side affects from this. From radiation he has a dry mouth, the taste for most foods is gone, He got very ill from the radiation I give him IV fluids daily because he can't drink enough to hydrate himself he has a g-tube and is getting better at tolerating the canned food. He has gone from 159lbs to todays weight 115lbs. He is scared about the weight loss and admitted tonight he was worried he was going to die, to the point he told me when he was going to sleep so I would keep an eye on him. We are waiting to get an MRI to find out if the tumor is gone and if radiation worked. We know the lymphnodes are clear now. I told him i found this board and he wanted to know if anyone has had these issues and what they did to gain the weight and just some encouragement. Thank you for any info God bless you all Susie