 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Mommopez,
like Joanna I had a big honking tumor as well (see my signature below - and given even worse odds), well, by one doctor anyway. Like Joanna, it's been 4+ years now and I'm doing great. Forget the odds, they'll just drive you crazy and like others have said they don't take a lot of things into consideration.
Maybe there is no "cure" but you can certainly have a "complete response" (CR) to treatment.
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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