Update 07/27/2013 We just called Joyce and she will start taking oral chemo pills. The lesions on her face has not healed. I am at a lost about what is going on, is that palliative care?

Joyce is complaining of dry throat and makes it hard for her to eat orally. She still has her peg tube and will not be removed.

Treatments received this year:
Cisplatin chemo 3 sessions
Erbitux 7 with 35 radiation

Additional Treatment Suggested

2 more Erbitux and oral chemo pills for maintenance.

Question: Do you think the oral chemo pills will help her? She is told that the oral chemo will help dry the lesions on her face.

Last edited by Ina; 07-27-2013 05:21 PM.
Joyce March 1940 to January 2014
A wife, a mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
She fought oral cancer from late 2009 to Early 2014.
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.