Question for Ken,

You did not mention what type of oral cancer you had. My husband has base of tongue cancer and lymph node involvement. He just finished 12/12/04 seven weeks of radiation with 96 hours of chemo the first and fourth week of treatment. He was able to survive the treatment with the assistance of a PEG or feeding tube and has been living on mighty shakes plus.

You mentioned that your salvia came back, did you have radiation or IMRT (sp) radiation. During the treatments he seemed to have more mucos than the other men in his treatment group and it has slowed down but still continues.

When were you able to eat "real food"? The doctor told him he is expecting too much that it has only been a few weeks.

Since his cancer was Stage IV and the lymph nodes have not entirely disappeared the ENT has scheduled a neck dissection for 2/22/05 but will have him have another PET scan the week before to see if he needs the neck dissection. He believes in the DUKE study that shows having a neck dissection increases your survival rate another 20%. Did you say you had a neck dissection and was it pre or post radiation.