 Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 90 | Max
You didn't say where you are being treated? Are you at a CCC? I believe it sounds like you are having IMRT treatments. I can't really be of much help as my father is having XRT radiation. He is only taking one treatment a day. I think however I have read about people who take IMRT having two treatments a day. Gary O. might be better to answer. I hope you are doing well. My father also has no tube and says everything taste awful. He has managed so far but even water is a struggle.
Caregiver to Father:Stage III unknown primary; modified left side neck dissection 2/2006; 8 wk trmts of Erbitux 3/2006 with-37 radition treatments; 11.2010; biopsy of base of tongue results questionable. 9.2013 tumor on left side of tongue; squamous cell cancer. 10.2.2013 Hemiglossectomy(1/2 tongue removed) with reconstruct tongue using left thigh tissue;surgery included IORT.
25 additional IMRT radiation trtmts & 5 wks/chemo. Carbo & Taxol combo.NPO;100% PEG depend;aspiration pneumonia 3/2014
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