 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Just like people receiving rads for oral cancer, breast cancer survivors also face a lifetime of complications extending beyond what oral cancer survivors face. In addition to all our rad issues, breast cancer survivors also experience brachial plexopathy which is like our neck problems in the whole body from nerve damage to the main brachial plexus nerve bundle caused by rads.
In addition, anyone receiving rads to the upper chest and above with doses above 45 Gy are also in the high risk pool for lifelong radiation induced fibrosis issues including thoracic paraplegia. The lymphedema issues alone are way beyond anything oral cancer survivors face.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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