greetings all.

i just came across the following press release and wanted to share it with everyone. dr. rhoades was one of the team who treated me and is a cool guy.

i know it's about head and neck cancer, but at the james that's way they refer to the oral cancer patients. i am part of the head and neck cancer support group and can say that it's mostly oral cancer patients. we happen to be the ones with the most to say, even after cancer tries to take our speech away!

NEW TREATMENT STUDIED FOR HEAD AND NECK CANCER

November 21, 2002
COLUMBUS, Ohio

Jeanette:

I was just watching Channel 3 News here in Cleveland and saw a feature on the success Dr. Schuller and his team are having in treating oral cancer - was that you on the TV? If it was you you looked great and the clip was very educational. Are Dr. Schuller's rates of survival really that high? Is he doing anything different than those at MD Anderson, etc.?

yep, that was my ugly mug on the tv. they did that interview so long ago i totally forgot about it. i didn't know it was airing until my phone rang off of the hook from all of my relatives up in cleveland.

the sucess rate with dr. schuller's protocol is as high as he says. when i first went in to see him, he was completly confident that i would be able to have kids some day and watch them grow up. upon agreeing to the protocol, i was never given any stats lower than a 70% survival rate. there have been a few papers published by him and his collegues about the protocol if you want to search and find them.

i'm not sure what the other hospital's treatment regimines are so i can't compare them. i'd have to do some research into their methods.