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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 8 | My experience is sometimes the swelling post radiation may be due to the body reacting to the radiation. So, before the neck mass was the tumor and now the “mass” may be swelling. I remember my husband’s neck was quite “full” for a while after his treatment. He also had Cisplatin, but, honestly, he had such a strong reaction to the radiation and Cisplatin that I didn’t notice if he had lost color.
Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
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