Hi Paul,
After my son's chemo, CT scan revealed residual neck lymphnodes , size reduced from 5 to 3.2 and tonsil ca gone.
However the onco was not sure what to do next so he moved on to another team that suggested chemoradiation: 6 low dose cisplatin and 34 IMRT. After 2 cycles of cisplatin, he cannot do it anymore. He was nauseated all the time which continued to the present even without having chemo for 2 weeks already. The rad onco said it was not a side effect of RT. My son is not able to eat well and drink and the doc was not recommending peg tube because according to him, no one has ever put a pegtube when undergoing RT in the country where he lives.


April 2012: R neck inflammation, cured with ATB
April 2013: R neck inflammation recurred
June 2013: Dx: Papillary SCC of tonsil T2N2-3M0
July 2013: TPF every 21 days for 6 cycles (4.5 months)CT tonsil ca gone, R neck residual lymph nodes
November 2013: Chemo/RT (cisplatin/34 IMRT)