OP  Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Well it's finally begun. Had the 1st IMRT treatment at 7:00 am at UCSF and Cisplatin chemotherapy that afternoon. So far so good, no nausea or any other reactions. Other the the mask being a little tight, I slept through most of it. They are giving me 6 weeks of 6MeV with cisplatin (5 days a week)every three weeks.
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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