 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Barb,
That's exactly what it is.
The radiation is very penetrating. I lost the hair on my neck in 360 degrees permanently. The radiation also zaps the red blood cells during treatment passing through the carotid arteries and that doesn't help much (in addition to some chemos damaging the bone marrow - although not Cisplatin so much). The red blood cells replace themselves every 120 days. It was almost 2 years before my WBC got to wothin normal range.
I would exchange the kid gloves for latex ones!
The Diflucan would be prescription.
My insurance costs $1200/mo and my copay is $5. $10 for name brand prescriptions, chest x-rays and lab work and $50 for PET/CT or MRI scans.
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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