 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 |
The longer you are out from your treatments the less you have to get checked. Of course this is unless something isnt right. If you have a problem go to your doc, dont put it off. Better safe than sorry. Where you are with your doctors and scans sounds about right for being finished 3 years.
My main doc for all my cancer stuff is my ENT. My ENT just moved me from every other month to every 3 months. When I see him I am hoping to be pushed to every 4 months. I get CT scans every 6 months and seen my MO the same frequency. Im hoping to be moved to every 9 months at next week's visit. Of course that is if everything is ok with the scan. I see my family doctor only when something is wrong which is rarely. I no longer see my RO, havent seen him for over a year. He told me he would love to keep me as his patient but its really not necessary.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
