Please encourage her to complete the treatement under the guidance of the RO. With the tumor shrinking she can see that it is working! Giving up is the wrong thing to do.
There should not be any need to be in that much pain, what medication is she talking?

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Partial glossectomy (25%) anterior tongue. 4/6/07/. IMRT start @5/24/07 (3x) Erbitux start/end@ 5/24/07. IMRT wider field (30x) start 6/5/07. Weekly cisplatin (2x30mg/m2), then weekly carbo- (5x180mg/m2). End of Tx 19 July 07.