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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Randy,
Eat everything! No seriously, by the time your treatment is finished you probably won't be able to taste much of anything, so go enjoy the foods you love now. And do try to eat nutritiously, a balanced diet can only help in your recovery.
As far as activity, I was able to keep walking throughout my treatment and I was in pretty lousy shape going in. Studies have shown that gentle exercise, like walking, helps combat the fatigue that so often accompanies radiation treatment.
- 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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