 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Ethyol is tricky stuff - quite a few here have not been able to stay the course because of adverse side effects.
I had IMRT and got most of my salivary function back, with the exception of the right parotid which was directly in the beam path. So if you do have to quit, it's not an automatic salivary death sentence.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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