Hi All,

I golfed through the entire radiation and chemo treatment. Although not well. Hit from womens tees because I was very week. I found it takes a few months for the effects of the radiation to wear off. I was fatigued for some time. I had the neck disection done on jan31, about 7 weeks after treatment stops. the radiation gets progressivley worse as the time goes on. Burns to the skin, mouth sores, etc. I coudn't speak for about 3 weeks. The skin heals very quickly from the burns though. It looks much worse than it is.

I had 5FU (4 days straight at the beginning and at end, Taxol, plus two others in the middle of the 5FU. Has 35 raiation treatments. The mask they bolt you to the table with was the worst part.

If I can be of further help, email me at [email protected]

Steve

SCC, base of tongue, 2 lymph nodes, stage 3/4. 35 X's IMRT radiation, chemo: Cisplatin x 2, 5FU x2, & Taxol x2. Hooray, after 3 years I'm in still in remission.