 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | JC,
I'll be 59 in June, I was originally Dx'd when I was 55.
All H&N rad treatmenets are done with a mask to imobilize the head and present an accurate and repeatable target. It's not as big a deal as it seems. You get used to it really quickly.
They don't actually remove the salivary gland, they just relocate out of the radiation beam field. It;s a pretty new concept.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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