 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Hi Amy,
When you say that many patients decline the neck disection and that you feel the percentage of patients doing this is becoming greater, are you talking about the patient population at the hospital that treated your husband or do you mean head and neck cancer patients in general??
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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