We had our Oral Cancer walk today. Someone wanted to know my story so I sat down and told her. She then said she wanted to aska personal question. She prefaced by saying that since I did not msoke, drink, or have HPV and was so young, "was there a relationship with this cancer and my weight?" I was really offended by that comment. I did not let it show because she drove three hours to come to the walk, her daughter is a student of the OU dental hygiene clinic that helped organize the walk. It sure made me angry that someone could even bring up weight into the picture.
Angelia 31 at Dx. DX: 4/30/09, 10/21/09 SCC on floor of mouth, T1NOMO, T2N1M0 TX: 39 IMRT, 8 cisplatin 11/30/09 PET/CT: 11/03/09: Lymph node involvement PEG/PORT: 11/09 TX end: 02/01/10 PET Scan: 04/05/10 clear PEG Out: 06/21/10 Biopsy: 12/23/10: fibrosis HBO: 01/04/11 - ORN Baby girl born 11-30-12