Sean

Sorry that you are having to deal with this. The radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments are used to clean up any bits of the disease that may still be in our body following the surgery. The chemotherapy will go through your system and the radiotherapy is a more targeted treatment probably around your mouth and neck area, where the tumor and lymph nodes were removed from. It can be very overwhelming.

Best wishes with your treatments. I have visited Hawaii many times, you come from a beautiful part of the world.

Karen

Last edited by Karen Rose; 08-23-2009 12:12 AM.

46 yrs:
Apr 07-SCC 80% entire tongue removed,T4N1M0
Neck/D,Jaw Split, Trache 2 ops,PEG 3.5yrs
30 x rad,6 x Cisplatin,
30 x HBO
Apr'08- flap Recon + ORN Mandibulectomy
(hip bone to reconstruct jaw)
Oct'08 1 Plate out-jaw
Mar'09 Debulk flap
Sep'09/Jan&Nov'10/Feb&Jun'11/Jan&Jul'12/Oct'13/April'14-More surgery