Thank y'all SO much! The good news is, we are on the right track. The bad news is, we're pretty much doing everything advised. Last night was awful, he was literally screaming as he was trying to rinse his mouth and clean his teeth, the sores and rawness are so bad.

So, please tell me - how BAD will this get? He's not even to the 1/2 way point yet.


Wife to patient with poorly differentiated, non-keratinized, squamous cell carcinoma in one tonsil. Stage 4. T2N2 with metastisation to three lymph nodes of the left neck.
Dx Nov '14
Tonsillectomy and neck dissection Nov '14
Chemo (cisplatin) & radiation started 12/10/14