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Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Marjorie,
I moved your post to a new topic so people could find you easier
Marjorie
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Member # 1248
posted April 15, 2004 08:11 PM
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I don't know if I'm happy or sad that I found this website. My mother who will be 85 in Sept. was just diagnosed yesterday with cancer of the tongue. Everything went so fast, we were at the oral surgeon at 9:00 am and he gave the diagnosis, a rush appointment at the ENT the same day and he got us an appointment the next morning at University of Penn with the ENT Oncologist. He explained to us that it is very curable and she is scheduled for surgery on the 13th of May. He said at Univ. of Penn Hospital they do not use radiation, that surgery is the preferred method of treatment, but that radiation may be used after surgery if cancer is found in the lymph nodes of the neck. She is frail, weighs 114 and cannot really afford to lose any weight. I am trying to fatten her up prior to her surgery but I have read some real horror stories here. I am new to some of the words, like Peg, and will have to learn what it is. Please pray for her and for us to make the right treatment decisions. Thank you all.
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Posts: 1 | From: New Jersey | Registered: Apr 2004 | IP: Logged
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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