Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | So are they planning on giving you anything to help preserve your saliva or are those glands not going to be in the field of radiation? How about the pill Salagen?
I'm off to the horse races at Saratoga till the 10th. By then you should have started treatment. Best of luck.
Eileen
---------------------- Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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