#44360 01-03-2005 01:04 PM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | OP  Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 | Hello All,
Started another round of chemo today. This after having a mri of my throat and a cat scan of my lungs last wednesday.
The Doctor came in with a big smile on her face. The multiple lung nodules seen in June are no longer there!!!The cat scan came back as clear as the ice in Mark's backyard! The mri also showed no growth in the surgical bed from prior scan in June. The Taxol & Carboplatin seem to be holding it in check. I have learned to be happy again. Who knows for how long? But it sure as hell is better than it could have been. I know alot of you were pulling for me and like it or not alot of prayers sent this way also.
Marcee and I will be in Virginia in April for Minnie's Cancer Walk. Looking forward to meeting everyone who can make it. Thanks again for all your support. It means more to me and my family
than I can express in words.
Love Ya, Danny Boy
Daniel Bogan DX 7/16/03 Right tonsil,SCC T4NOMO. right side neck disection, IMRT Radiation x 33.
Recurrance in June 05 in right tonsil area. Now receiving palliative chemo (Erbitux) starting 3/9/06
Our good friend and loved member of the forum has passed away RIP Dannyboy 7-16-2006
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#44361 01-03-2005 01:32 PM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 153 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 153 | hi Danny,
soar high, you eagle!
happy 2005.
cu,
larryb | | |
#44362 01-03-2005 01:46 PM | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 217 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 217 | Oh, Danny Boy! These are warm tears of sheer joy for you! What an awesome way to bring in a new year! Tom and I will look forward to seeing you in the spring.......we'll stay with my sister who lives in Chesapeake and she'll join us if she can get off work  Happy, Happy New Year! Love Nicki
Nicki, wife of Thomas
dx July 2004, SCC, Stage 4 Tonsil. Tx begun 8/4/04. Cisplatin/Xeloda x 4; IMRT 7 wks, 8/7 - 10/25/04 Modified Radical Dissection (right), Selective Dissection (Left) 12/10/04.
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#44363 01-03-2005 02:25 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "OCF Down Under" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 528 | Dear Danny What a wonderful start to the new year! I'm thrilled. Love from Helen 
RHTonsil SCC Stage IV tx completed May 03
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#44364 01-03-2005 02:41 PM | Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Hot damn Danny, I knew all it took was a 'kick in the a..' to get your doctors moving. I knew you could do it. I was not about to take that dx they gave you in May. Here's to a great 2005 and hope to see you and Marcee in Virginia Beach in April.
Take care,
Eileen and Charlie
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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#44365 01-03-2005 03:49 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Wow, Danny, praise God...that is such great news. I just read it to Dan and we are both so happy for you and Marcee! What a fantastic way to start out 2005!
God bless,
Debbie
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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#44366 01-03-2005 04:15 PM | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 94 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 94 | I'm new to this community, but I've read a lot of posts. You've got a good heart, Danny Boy. Congrats to you! Live strong.
Ken
SCCA T2N1M0 diagnosed 11/02, radical neck dissection, 7 weeks radiation, 6 surgeries to deal with osteonecrosis, 10 weeks hyperbaric oxygen. "Live strong. Laugh often."
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#44367 01-03-2005 06:29 PM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | I just read this post Danny and went straight to the phone to call my daughter, Megan. She asks about you a number of times a week as her computer is broken right now and she hasn't been able to read the posts.
Our prayers for you have been answered, we have such a wonderful God.
See you in April Captain Danny, I'm so happy that our walk will include so many of the OCF posse!
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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#44368 01-03-2005 06:59 PM | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 104 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 104 | Danny Boy,
What wonderful news for such a deserving person. I join with everyone in offering congratulations and for Your being a true "Voice of Hope". Wishing You a fantastic 2005 and way beyond..
Peace
Jack
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Dx 1/15/97 SCC rt. tonsil met to rt lymph node Stg IV,
Srgry 1/23/97 tonsillectomy & mod radical neck dissection,
Radiation 35 trtmnts both sides | | |
#44369 01-04-2005 02:07 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 837 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 837 | Danny,
That sounds like the best possible start for '05 -- I hope and pray that good news keeps coming your way!
Cathy
Tongue SCC (T2M0N0), poorly differentiated, diagnosed 3/89, partial glossectomy and neck dissection 4/89, radiation from early June to late August 1989
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#44370 01-04-2005 03:52 AM | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 153 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 153 | This is wonderful news Danny - I can feel your excitement from here. May 2005 hold even more blessings for you and yours.
Sister of 32 year-old oral cancer victim. Our battle is over but the war rages on. My brother passed July 26, 2005. He was a smokeless tobacco user.
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#44371 01-04-2005 05:25 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Danny Boy,
As I fight back the tears (of JOY, of course), I thank God for being so good to you, so good to all of us. I will continue to pray for more miracles to drop in your path!
YBIC,
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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#44372 01-04-2005 05:53 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 218 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 218 | DANNY BOY YOUR THE MAN. CONGRATS YOU OLD SOB. I AM SO FRIGGING HAPPY FOR YOU. I THINK ABOUT YOU ALL THE TIME. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PACK BEAT THE BEARS.
TIME TO BE HAPPY. YOU MADE MY DAY MAN.
TAKE IT EASY BROTHER.
ROBERT
SCC 1.6cm Right Tonsil 10/3/03, 1 Node 3cm, T1N2AM0, Tonsil Removed, Selective Neck Disection, 4 Wks Induction Chemo (Taxol,Cisplatin), 8 Weeks Chemo/Radiation (5FU,Hydroxyurea,Iressa), IMRT x 40, Treatment Complete 2/13/04.
41 Years Old At Diagnosis
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#44373 01-04-2005 06:13 AM | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 76 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 76 | Danny Boy
Thank God for miracles and folk like you who get to share them. Keep smiling & beating those odds!
Happy New Year & many more.
Love
Maria
01/04 SCC of tongue base, T1N0M0
03/04 Partial glossectomy
04/04 Rad
12/04 Throidectomy(follicular cancer)
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#44374 01-04-2005 08:03 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | Hi Danny Boy
Just knew YOU would change the odds, maybe the luck of the IRISH? LOL..
Sunshine... love and hugs
Helen
SCC Base of tongue, (TISN0M0) laser surgery, 10/01 and 05/03 no clear margins. Radial free flap graft to tonsil pillar, partial glossectomy, left neck dissection 08/04
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#44375 01-04-2005 08:05 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | OP Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 | All your replies just make me aware of how lucky I am. I could never repay all I have taken from the Oral Cancer Foundation. To know so many people from all over the world is just plain cool!!!
Thanks again for all your love and support.
Love ya All, Danny Boy
Daniel Bogan DX 7/16/03 Right tonsil,SCC T4NOMO. right side neck disection, IMRT Radiation x 33.
Recurrance in June 05 in right tonsil area. Now receiving palliative chemo (Erbitux) starting 3/9/06
Our good friend and loved member of the forum has passed away RIP Dannyboy 7-16-2006
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#44376 01-04-2005 09:29 AM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 382 Likes: 3 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 382 Likes: 3 | Danny- Just the news we all needed to hear to bring in a fantastic 2005 - the year for a cure! Love and hugs to you and Marcee!! Still working the angles to make it in April but until then ... another toast  PS. Still working on all that cheese..yummm! Love - Kris
SCC Stage IV left tonsil neck disection 3/02 radiation finished 6/02 chemo finished 9/02
Stage 2A left breast cancer 3/09, chemo and radiation, finished treatment 2/7/10 -Stage 2 right beast cancer 10/14 chemo and radiation
Every day is still a gift :-)
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#44377 01-04-2005 10:39 AM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,116 | Way to go Danny Boy! God Bless, looking forward to meeting you in April. Love, Carol
Diagnosed May 2002 with Stage IV tongue cancer, two lymph nodes positive. Surgery to remove 1/2 tongue, neck dissection, 35 radiation treatments. 11/2007, diagnosed with cancer of soft palate, surgery 12/14/07, jaw split. 3/24/10, cancer on tongue behind flap, need petscan, surgery scheduled 4/16/10
---update passed away 8-27-11---
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#44378 01-04-2005 11:33 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 137 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 137 | Danny, This is WONDERFUL news to hear. THANK YOU GOD FOR HEARING ALL OF US. I am in tears here just relieved that you got a clean report...WHAT A NEW YEAR GIFT!!!!! God Bless You and Your family, Miss Vicki | | |
#44379 01-04-2005 01:47 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 541 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 541 | Danny Boy, the best new year gift you give to us when the world is full of misery and adversity. Keep flying higher and higher! Congratulations!
Karen.
Karen stage 4B (T3N3M0)tonsil cancer diagnosed in 9/2001.Concurrent chemo-radiation treatment ( XRT x 48 /Cisplatin x 4) ended in 12/01. Have been in remission ever since.
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#44380 01-04-2005 02:14 PM | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 117 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 117 | Danny Boy,
You are so awesome! Congratulations on that great news! I can't wait to meet you in April and I can't wait to speak again and tell your story and have some positive news to add to it! Way to go!
Barb
SCC tongue, stage I (T1N0M0), partial glossectomy and modified neck dissection 7/1/03
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#44381 01-04-2005 02:16 PM | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 251 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 251 | So very, very happy for you!!!
Love Bless,
Anita
Husband Dx 12/02 Stage 4 Tonsil Cancer T1N2bM0; surgery, radiation, chemo 1/03 - 4/03.
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#44382 01-04-2005 06:26 PM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 72 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 72 | Wow! Terrific news! Danny you are an inspiration to many people and I have been so impressed by your ability to share with everyone what you are going through. You have also been very generous of you time and thoughts with others. I admire you greatly. Great news indeed! - Candace
Sister of guy w/base of tongue cancer, Stage IV, Dx 4/03, finished Tx 9/03
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#44383 01-05-2005 08:06 AM | Joined: May 2003 Posts: 928 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 928 | What a great post!!
Danny you have sooo many friends who are pulling for you ...Aww Jeez now I`m going to cry. Tears of Joy as Ed said.
Bless You Danny, this could not happen to a better person.
Take care
love
Marica
Caregiver to husband Pete, Dx 4/03 SCC Base of Tongue Stage IV. Chemo /Rad no surgery. Treatment finished 8/03. Doing great!
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#44384 01-05-2005 10:00 AM | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 642 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 642 | Danny Boy,
What great news! I am so thrilled for you. You mentioned ice in the back yard...I don't want to make you feel bad, but I did play golf in shorts and a short sleeved shirt yesterday. Maybe you and your wife should come down to Texas and join the other snowbirds in the balmy weather. You cheeseheads practically invented those Winnebagos, right?
Take care...you really deserved the good news.
The other Danny..
Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.
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#44385 01-06-2005 03:50 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 116 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 116 | Super Dupper
Thanks for the update and keep those positive vibes going.
SCC R-Tonsil T2 NO MO Dec 2003. Completed IMRT Radiation only to tonsils(72Gy) and neck(55Gy)March 04. Detected at age 50.
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#44386 01-06-2005 08:20 AM | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 146 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 146 | Hey Danny,
All I can say is, YOU ARE THE MAN!!!! Congrats on the great news. Keep those good reports coming - it's what we all love to hear!
Hugs, Nancy
Stage IV oral cancer (tongue), T3N2, total glossectomy with right and left modified neck dissection 7/03, rad /chemo ended 11/03
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#44387 01-06-2005 06:55 PM | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 189 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 189 | Oh Danny,
You sweetheart......I knew this bastard had met its match in you.
You and Marcee dance for us, and we will do the two-step here.
The southern belle is still here, and you are constantly convincing her to reappear. LOL
I love you boy....you have no idea.
God Bless,
Mandi
Husband diagnosed with stage III tonsil and floor of mouth cancer in August 2002. Three rounds of chemo/42 RAD treatments. Upper right lung lobectomy in March 2003. (Benign)
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