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Joined: Jun 2014 Posts: 86 | I have a question for everyone. My brother did his surgery to remove some
Of his tongue and it was orignanally scheduled to be an outpatient surgery but he was in too much pain. They kept him overnight. Did anyone do outpatient or in patient? It's crazy to me that they wojld send him home after removing some of his tongue and expect him to take norco/Tylenol?
22 YO Brother Dx 6/17/14 w. SCC R Lateral tongue
CT scan clear LN 6/20/14
HPV-, non-smoker
R tongue, right hemiglossectomy Surgery 6/24/14
(Not reoccurrence but went to NCCC instead
R neck dissection, tracheostomy, radial free flap, R tongue dissection surg 8/11/14
PT1N2B.3 positive lymph nodes out of 13
Extranodal extension present
9-15-14 IMRT (35x) & Cisplatin (2x) begun
10-21-14 peg in. 10-31-14 1 round of carboplatin
11-4-14 IMRT rx comp
3-27-15 Recurrent tumor in lymph node, L neck diss.
10-29-15 brother passed away, 23 yrs old
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