 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | I think thata dvice is good. However, I had been under the impression that ANY kind of swallowing was what you needed to do so I kept sipping on water and tea all through treatment and thought I'd be OK. But in fact, one can swallow liquids and still have problems with solids later as I have found out.
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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