 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Tell him to eat all of his favorite fattening foods he can and as often as he wants. He will surely loose a ton of weight during Tx. When you say it's affected "both" of his nodes, do you mean nodes on both sides of his neck or just 2 nodes on one side? We have a chain of appx 28 nodes on each side of our neck that act as filters for their side if you were to draw a line down the center of the tongue. I would get an opinion from both. If he was a non smoker he has a 70% chance that his cancer slides will test positive for HPV.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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