 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Your survival odds are significantly improved when you get adjunctive chemo with radiation. It's no picnic but it beats the alternative. Be greatful that your team wants you to do both. You need to hit this with everything you've got.
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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