My experience was the same as Davids and the ct played a major role in it. Cisplatin is well known to cause mouth sores. Of course radiation damage was a factor as well. They continued to about a nonth post Tx then very slowly the damage healed over the next 6 months or so.


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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