Very very sad. However, with[quote] terrifying symptoms: crippling headaches, tunnel vision and tremors that shook her entire body.[/quote]it sounds like Stage IV with major spreading of the cancer to the point where the tumor may well have been inoperable. Not too many posters here start off with such bad symptoms right out of the box. sounds like any TX would only have been pallitive and not curative anyway. So sad.
Charm


65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

Passed away 4-29-13