 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Have you talked to your MO? I didn't have any effects on my face except where the radiation field actually penetrated. This sounds more like a reaction to the Erbitux which is quite common. They gave me a steroidal cream for the radiation burns - mainly because of the itching part, which controlled it right away (you do NOT want to scratch it!).
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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