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Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 207 | Hi Shawna,
Sounds normal to me. He will be wiped out and very weak. It will take several months to recover fully. I'm 9 months outof treatment and still feel the effects. They ar eslowly going away. He must consume at least 2100 calories per day. That's nine bottles of Boost or other nutrient per day. Your Oncologist can give some cream for the neck burns. It's amazing but my burns healed very quickly. My skin came off like a sunburn but underneath was smooth.
Steve Daib
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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