 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 622 Likes: 1 | Side effects do vary from person to person, and you will see answers to this question vary widely from the people here that have gone through it.
First a couple of questions for you:
Do you have a PEG (feeding tube) or have you discussed this with your doctors?
Eating may and more than likely will become a problem as the radiation progresses. Protein intake is key and keeping you daily calories up will help.
Are you going to be getting adjunctive chemotherapy with your radiation?
18 YEAR SURVIVOR
SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.
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