This afternoon I go for my first IMRT. I guess I'm not too concerned about today it sounds from many of the stories I've been told that the first "few" weeks may not be so bad. I have developed a rash over the area near my ear where the neck dissection scar starts - strangely enough I think it might be a reaction to colase, which I've been taking since last week to help things along as I was still taking a little Roxicet for the belly pain from my feeding tube installation. I was getting all sorts of stomach cramping and somehow I didn't connect it. Goodness knows. Abyway I just wanted to introduce myself as I begin this journey.


SCC Started in the right tonsil they think, T1N2bM1
HPV+
Lots of nodes involved including some near the carotid - didn't come out during neck dissection
Distant Met's - one in the mediastinum, some suspicious stuff in the lungs
Radiation 70 Gy in 35 fraction
Cisplatin - 3
Stereotactic rad to the mediastinum
Clean PET Apr 13
Clean PET Aug 13
Clean PET Dec 13
Clean CT with contrast Mar 14
Clean CT with contrast Sept 14
Clean CT with contrast Feb 15