OP  "OCF Down Under, Kiwi" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 644 Likes: 1 | Thank you Bart and Nancy. Hard to know what I'd do without you all.
By dragging myself into the city on the bus today I managed to attend a lecture about oral cancer where I met a fellow patient (Stage 4 and she's only 23 - my heart broke) who said she got her taste back after 6 weeks. While the lecture was on oral hygiene and the dangers of sugars and acids, she gave me the advice to eat whatever I could get down at this stage of proceedings, just as you said, Bart.
1996, ovarian cancer surgery + cisplatin and taxol.
September, 2007, SCC of left lateral tongue. Excision.
October, 2009 recurrence in scar tissue, T1NOMO. Free flap surgery from left wrist - neck dissection. 63 year old New Zealander. No chemo, no RT.
February, 2014. New primary in left buccal mucosa. Marginal mandibulectomy, neck dissection, right arm free forearm flap. T1N0M0 but third occurrence and some areas of concern: RT started 8 April and finished 19 May.
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