OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2014 Posts: 86 | Hi everyone,
My brother is in his third week of Radiation (12th treatment was today to be exact). Yesterday he met with his Oncologist and he said that everytbing looked great. Today when he went for radiation (the younger radiation doctor noticed inflammation in his neck) so he called our other doctor who is the chief Radioligist over and the doctor said "no don't worry this is just because of the radiation." I felt my brothers neck and do feel that one side is swollen. Should we be worried? Has anyone had experience with this?
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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