Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | I got the same advice from my medical oncologist. During chemo and radiation you want to maximize the difference in healing between good cells and cancer cells. Antioxidants slow down tumor development but that actually measn the cancer cells are less likely to die from radiation or cehmo also.
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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