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Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 46 | Hi EDD,
Sorry to hear of your PET diagnosis but will still hold hope that the biopsy shows no cancer. Was your orginal site the right tonsil or someplace else?
After almost five years in remission, my husband was diagnosed with recurrent tonsil cancer in September. He has the neck dissection in October and has just finished 5 weeks of reirradiation and 2 cycles of Cisplatin. The treatment for the recurrence was not as tough as the original treatment in 2002. It was a different kind of radiation and targeted to a smaller area of his neck. So, even if you have to be retreated it may not be as difficult as the initial time.
Wishing you the best.
Loretta
C/G to husband SCC of right tonsil, Dx 5/02. Tx concurrent rad with Taxol and Cisplatin. Consolidation therapy Cisplatin and 5-FU. Recurrence 9/06, neck dissection 10/06. Tx with twice daily radiation; two in-patient infusions of Cisplatin.
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