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Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 207 | Hi Barry, Gail,
the PEG is very important. When Barry can't eat any more, make sure he takes enough Boost or other product each day to keep his strength up. I found Boost and the Wal-mart brand to be the best and most reasonable as far as cost/calories/protien. I took 3 in the AM, 3 at noon and 3 in the evening for about 2100 calories a day. Several people local here in Raliegh were not getting enough calories during their treatment.
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.
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