 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Gary,
My load was 1,000,000 and the doc thought it best to treat. It was undetectable at the 3 month check and now almost 2 years later it still is. I was fully expecting the virus to resurface during treatment but I had it checked every other month. My lymph node in the neck started swelling 2 weeks after treatment ended. My wife's OB/GYN thinks there is a connection to the interferon and cancer but what choice do you have? I would be curious to look at everyone post-treatment and see if others had any type of cancer from the immune suppression.
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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