Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Late but still of value...
I am probably the exception for IMRT and I would like to share the particulars. In my haste to remove a lump on my neck and not knowing what I know now and not having the "family" around here that I have now, I found myself in a plastic surgeon's hands, having a lump taken out. He freaked when he saw it and thought it was TB so he just cut some off for a biopsy and stuffed it back in, thinking I would be on an antibiotic cocktail for the next 18 months until the TB cleared up. XRT or field radiation as they worded it would be more effective in erradicating all the cancerous crud that had been unleashed in my neck. It sure seemed to make me feel more at comfortable and appears to have been successful.
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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