 Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 81 Likes: 2 | Hi CougarDad,
Like Joy, I am getting treated at Stanford and they are very anti-feeding tube. Less than 10% of patients get it.
If you lose more than 8% of your body weight they will have you get one. However they track weight at every visit and the case management team is very persistent about you keeping up the weight.
Keep fighting friends!
Me -- currently 53 years old
SCC diagnosed 3/7/2017 at age 48
Staging SCC HPV+ T0,N1 primary unknown
PET 3/16, no activity, biopsies 3/23 benign
TORS surgery identified 2mm tumor in BOT (vallecula)
Cancer restaged T1, N2, M0
Begin 30 sessions of radiation (60 Gy) 6/13
Completed radiation 7/24/2017
1st MRI clear 10/23/2017!!
2nd MRI clear 10/17/2018!
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