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Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 114 | Please don't feel guilty! My doctor has been really wonderful to say, here are your choices - here are the pros and cons, and there is NO wrong answer. Try not to spend any time regretting the steps you've taken so far. The 'what ifs' can really eat at you if you let them.
His hair should start coming back not too long after he's off the medication which makes it fall out. It takes time - in my case even when hair started to grow back, it was verrrrryyyyy sllllloooooowwwww.
Now I just shave it all off anyhow, I got used to the look! And I guess a bonus of being back on chemo again is I don't even have to do that but about every 5 days or so!
-Steve
Age 41 - Stage 2 SCC tongue Dx 2/06. Cisplatin x3, IMRT x35. Mets to neck node discovered 7/07. RND 40 nodes removed, margins not clear. Cisplatin, Taxotere, 5-FU Fall 07, then IMXT/Erbitux for 7 wks. Inoperable mets to both lungs and pleura Dx Oct'08. 4 cycles Carboplatin, Erbitux, 5-FU so far.
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