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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 8 | He will have to wait a few weeks for the swelling from the radiation to dissipate before he gets a scan. At that point you will find out if the treatment is successful. Thereafter, there will be call-backs every few weeks.
I read years ago that tobacco deadens the nerves so that smokers may get silent heart attacks, which means they don’t feel the chest pains when they have a heart attack. If this is possible, maybe your husband doesn’t feel as much pain as others because of his tobacco use? It’s just conjecture on my part.
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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