Wendy, You need help from your medical team immediately! Stopping treatment is not an option. Someone has to take over your care for awhile. This is not a matter of you not being strong enough. It's a severe reaction to treatment with dehydration and weight loss.

Don't you get evaluated prior to radiation daily? Haven't the MD, Physician Assistants, and nurses on the cancer team established a relationship with you? All the things Christine and others have written need to be considered - hydration, medication evaluation, Peg or nasal gastric tube, etc., but FIRST you need a through medical evaluation

I do not think you can wait another day to get help. Your medical team needs to make a plan for you to be able to complete treatment.


CG to husband, dx @ age 65, nonsmoker/social drinker. Dx 5/08 SCC Stage IV, BOT T1N2aM0. 33 IMRT - completed 9/12/08. Induction Chemo (Cisplatin, Taxotere & 5FU), plus concurrent Cisplatin.
1/09 PEG removed; 5/09 neg PET/CT; 5/10 PET/CT NED
Dental extraction & HBOT 2013; ORN 2014; Debridement/Tissue Transfer & HBOT 2016