 Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 90 | Teamshrink
Sorry we had to meet this way but welcome and Joe is right you will find this website an excellent source of information. My father just completed treatment in May so we are not far behind you.
This is not an easy road but very doable just ask questions and ask more questions and continue to post. If I could ask what made you go to the doctor which found the cancer? I am always curious when a person so young is stricken with this disease.
Stay strong
Kim
Caregiver to Father:Stage III unknown primary; modified left side neck dissection 2/2006; 8 wk trmts of Erbitux 3/2006 with-37 radition treatments; 11.2010; biopsy of base of tongue results questionable. 9.2013 tumor on left side of tongue; squamous cell cancer. 10.2.2013 Hemiglossectomy(1/2 tongue removed) with reconstruct tongue using left thigh tissue;surgery included IORT.
25 additional IMRT radiation trtmts & 5 wks/chemo. Carbo & Taxol combo.NPO;100% PEG depend;aspiration pneumonia 3/2014
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