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Joined: Jun 2014 Posts: 86 | Hi everyone :
My brother is scheduled to do a neck dissection on Monday, July 14th. We were supposed to get a second opinion Last week but he was gushing blood from his tongue and he had to do another surgery to caterize his tongue. We haven't got in with another doctor and his doctor that did the surgery is out of town. They can not release the pathology report to us until he comes back in town. My brother is worried about the neck dissection and worried that if he takes out the lymph nodes then he will constantly get sick and be weak. Does this happen? Are the lymph nodes real important? Will his life be affected by removing 28 nodes?
Last edited by ak123; 07-08-2014 04:36 PM.
22 YO Brother Dx 6/17/14 w. SCC R Lateral tongue
CT scan clear LN 6/20/14
HPV-, non-smoker
R tongue, right hemiglossectomy Surgery 6/24/14
(Not reoccurrence but went to NCCC instead
R neck dissection, tracheostomy, radial free flap, R tongue dissection surg 8/11/14
PT1N2B.3 positive lymph nodes out of 13
Extranodal extension present
9-15-14 IMRT (35x) & Cisplatin (2x) begun
10-21-14 peg in. 10-31-14 1 round of carboplatin
11-4-14 IMRT rx comp
3-27-15 Recurrent tumor in lymph node, L neck diss.
10-29-15 brother passed away, 23 yrs old
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