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 Joined:  May 2013 Posts: 134 |  I had 35 doses from collar bone to chin (tumor and affected nodes). I then had 5 doses of "cone-down boost" to the tumor site.  Ten days after the boost was, shall we say, interesting.   Dx March 2011 via FNA (49 yrs old)
 SCC BoT
 HPV+ exact strain unknown
 Stage IVa T3N2cM0
 Cisplatin x 3, IMRT x 40 (7267 cGy)
 One node removed post-treatment (rad dmg)
 Clean PET 10/28/11
 Swallow therapy
 
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