| Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Hi Vicki,
I feel so bad for your father after reading your post. I remember having moments of fear a few weeks after radiation that I would never be able to eat again. It scared me alot. I wish I had some advice for his eating but I don't.
I hope there is not a new tumor and that you report back to us in a few weeks with some good news.
Just to give another opinion to offset Eds comment on the HBO Treatment. I asked my doctors numerous times if there was any risk to having the HBO treatments and they all assured me that there are NO studies that show the extra oxygen "feeds" cancer and gives you a recurrence. I also asked these same questions to the people on this board. The way I ended up looking at it was that if the cancer was there then it was going to eventually come out regardless of HBO treatment or not.
Keep us posted and vent here anytime you need to.
Minnie
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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