#37443 06-03-2004 03:35 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 207 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | OP  Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 207 | Danny Boy -- you are a good man... I look forward to being one of the many who shakes your hand in Vegas in September... Although I don't like to curse, I think you may have coined the unofficial OCF motto -- "We're stubborn sons of bitches" -- in another post...
Tongue cancer (SCC), diagnosed Oct. 2003 (T2 N0 M0). Surgery to remove tumor. IMRT Radiation 30x in Dec 2003 - Jan. 2004. Recurrence lymph node - radical neck dissection June 2004. Second round of rad/chemo treatments ended Sept. 2004.
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#37444 06-03-2004 04:37 PM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Good Luck tomorrow Eric, let us know as soon as possible.
Daniel, you make me smile.
Love,
Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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#37445 06-04-2004 08:39 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 482 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 482 | Eric: Will be praying for a good biopsy report. Its tomorrow now, so I guess you have or are getting the biopsy done. Hope it goes well. As to surgery after radiation, my 35 rad sessions were done 8 weeks before my radical neck dissection and it went very well except for some extra scrapping needed due to an unusually large muscle in the way and the jugular and carotid artery being problems. All in all, though, the radiation caused the surgeon no problems, at least none that he said anything about. Hope this helps to ease your mind.
Also, don't worry too much about that waking up with bad news. The first time they started to do my neck surgery, they stopped in the middle because of a "suspicous" tissue sample from the throat (by my primary site tonsil) that, when I woke up, they didn't know what the report was so they put off the rest of my surgery. Turned out negative (lucky me) and they went ahead and did the full dissection 2 weeks later.
Regards, Kirk Georgia
Stage IV, T1N2aM0, right tonsil primary, Tonsilectomy 11/03, 35 rad/3cisplatin chemo, right neck dissection 1/04 - 5/04.
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#37446 06-04-2004 10:15 AM | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 284 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 284 | Eric,
My prayers are with you today....Hoping for negative results.
Take Care,
Dani
Originally joined OCF on 12/12/03 as DaniO or Danijams
Dani-Mom SCC BOT & floor of mouth surgery-recur then surgery/rads & chemo completed 3/04
surgery 11/06 to remove dead bone & replace jaw w/ leg bone & titanium plate
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