Don't know how to jump in but i am doing so.
You can see from my signature a brief synopsis of my plight.
I've already been through hell with my ovarian cancer (beaten all the odds) and then when I found out that the maintenance drug (99.999% sure) i was on on may be the cause for the H&N ca you can imagine how devastated i was.
Once diagnosed there was a 3 week wait for surgery when one of the tumors tripled+ in size changing surgical plans the morning of. A flap was needed. Great - all the margins were clean just do a little radiation to be certain. Surgeons were confounded because i healed so fast - i was home in a week's time.
However I overexpress epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) so the radiation did not work. Now I am starting chemo (taxol & Erbitux) and radiation all over again. My mouth has only partially healed from the previous 24 treatments.
I would take a recurrence of ovarian cancer any day - this is hard to look at, hard to speak with, hard to eat with as you all know. I'd rather not see it nor feel it. One tumor started oozing this morning.