 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Marge,
Statistically, 25% of oral cancer patients neither drank nor smoked. The fact you never did should have a positive effect on your treatment and survivorship.
You may never know the actual reason. Science is still trying to figure out how cancer works. Right now all they have are theories.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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