 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Danny,
I just completed 33 rounds of radiation today and I still have my voice and the pain is not unbearable. My skin came through it with a sunburn and not oozing and weeping -it's already peeling with pink healthy skin coming out. Typically I am consuming, orally, about 2000 calories a day. I can't see any reason why I won't be eating solid foods of some sort in a month or less. IMHO there is a world of difference between IMRT and XRT, particularly the outcome. They told me that I will also retain 2 salivary glands also. The techs commented today on how my experience was so much better than many that they treat - I really don't have any answers for that -other than faith and prayer were part of my program also.
Gary Stage III, SCC, right tonsil
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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