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I asked the Doctors the same questions you did and was told that the efficacy of the drug Cetuximab on it's own was neck and neck with any of the other drugs available for Oral Cancers, however, they needed a longer time frame to see this fully playout and they also wanted to get a better grasp on the difference in the side effects between Cisplatin and Cetuximab.
40 yr old male--very active, ns, rarely drink
T4aN0M0 HPV+
11/21/13--Lesion on back right of tongue, biopsy neg, CT neg
11/25/13--2nd biopsy DX SCC BOT
12/21/13--T4aN0M0 via PET and MRI scans
12/30/13--Begin Cetuximab/Rad Treatment
Treatment currently at Stanford Medical Center
2/14/14--Finished 36 rad treatments
2/18/14--Finished 8 cetuximab infusions-completion of treatment
4/26/2014--MRI showed marked tumor regression
5/27/2014--PET clear
8/18/2014--MRI clear
2/22/2015--MRI clear
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