 Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 118 Likes: 1 | Greetings Margie and Julieann. I too am a member of the Nasty After Effects of Radiation club. I had a modified radical neck dissection in addition to chemotherapy and radiation in 2005. I have the ongoing mucus "goo" and that putrid foul sweet taste. I just had the titanium bar removed from my chin and debridement of the dead bone in my jaw. I think there are a number of OCF members with effects several years out. I'm very happy to be around to vent, and I am very happy that strides have been made in the delivery of radiation so that fewer survivors will be plagued by radiation's longer term effects.
Be well. Zenda
12/04 SCC Tonsil, Stage IV T3N2BM0. Mod RND, resect right oropharynx, free-flap, resect right tongue base. Erbitux,Docetaxel,RT X 33. 6/08 Mets lung, hilar lymph node:Carboplatin, Docetaxel. 2010 2nd clinical trial:lung clear, node stable. ORN,trismus,dysphagia. 8-10/2012 cryoablation,brachytherapy,cyberknife to lymph node. 12/12 NED. 6/13 Mets RLL lung: 8/13 cyberknife. 11/13 NED.
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