Welcome to OCF! Why would you consider treatment for this aggressive cancer by any entity other than the top medical and research institutions? Medicine is a science and with it are proven and effective treatments based on intense research. No wishful thinking, magic salves or chanting will have any effect on this disease. If you want a chance at a successful outcome, stick with the big guns. Johns Hopkins and Duke are great places. Your treatment will be tailored to your specific form of cancer and will follow a protocol based on research. There are many on these boards who have endured the difficulties of this disease, ie radiation, chemo, and surgery, and are around to tell about them. You will get a lot of valuable support here. Get your head out of the sand and ditch the holistic junk. That stuff may help your emotional side but will do little to help you beat this disease. Good luck!


Anita (68)
CG to husband, Clark, 79,
DX SCC 11/07, T4N0Mx, PEG 1/08, RAD, post rad infection 3/08,
HBOT 40 dives, ORN, Surg 11/09 mandibulectomy w/fibular graft.
Plastic Surg 4/10, 12/10, 3/11, 10/11, 4/12, 10/12. All PETS clear,
PEG out 1/11. 6/11 non union jaw fracture
Fractured jaw w/surgery 7/14
Aspiration pneumonia 7/21, 10/22
PEG 7/21
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