 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Thank you, Brian, for this. As a 17-year survivor of Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a 3-year survivor of borderline ovarian cancer, and a 3-month survivor of SCC of the tongue, I can't tell you how crazy it makes me to hear people say that the cure is being kept from me by dastardly researchers and doctors in the name of greed. I have met some of the most wonderful, compassionate and caring people in, I believe, all the world who would do anything to erase this scourge of cancer from my life. To accuse them of less that that, is outrageous.
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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