Hello everyone, this is my first post in here (Thanks to Brian for the help) I'm a 38 yr old male, Never smoked in my life and a father of three 5yr boy, 11yr girl, and 13yr boy.
I have stage 4b tonsil cancer with multiple nodes involved in my neck. Diagnosed on Nov 5, 02 primary was a 2cm tumor that was found behind my left tonsil. I have since had a wide field tonsillectomy that removed all of the tumor hopefully. Now I'm waiting for my first radiation treatment, along with chemo scheduled for 40 radiation treatments and weekly chemo.
I have read in a lot of the posts in here that some of you had some form of neck surgery. I have one node at level 2 in my neck that is 7cmx4cm in size on the left side (very uncomfortable) also 3 smaller ones that are involved on the same side and 3 small nodes on the right side. Lungs are clear, thank God. But I'm not having any surgery, I'm in Toronto Canada and being treated at The Princess Margaret Hospital.
My main question is this..
Is this a normal course of treatment? What should I expect for pain medication? I'm also scheduled for a feeding tube, the doctor said it would be in for about 3-4 months that sounds scary to me!
I came across this message board while surfing for info on the net and have read most of the posts and you all sound like a very brave bunch of people and would like to stay current with all of you. My doctor said he is going to treat this very aggressively for cure and not control... I guess that means there is hope.
God Bless, Ray