"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Good plan, wfc. Good plan.
And do ask about a nutritionist, if you haven't already. I made it through rads & chemo without losing any weight at all. I did lose when I switched from the cans to real food, but that's just because I got stubborn and refused to use the PEG at a certain point.
- Margaret
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08 Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016 Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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