 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Karyn,
Radiation is one of the tough questions, especially with a stage 1 or 2. I had stage 4 and had radiation but know of someone else on this site that had my same cancer with one lymphnode involved and didn't have radiation. He is doing fine five years later, so go figure. Alot depends on the opinion of your doctors and on your type of cancer. Even knowing of the fellow patient that didn't have radiation, if I were made to choose today what treatments I could do over again, I would still have radiation.
Good luck with your decision.
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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