 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Brian, pleae comment on JoAnne's post - this is the first I have heard of radiation and chemo causing leukemia (not that it can't cause other nasty things down the road. Is this one more thing we have to add to out anxiety baggage or a coincidence? All I could find was pretty murky - mainly to do with childhood, testicular, ovarian and/or breast cancer. Here's a good link to all of the other stuff to worry about: http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/cancer.gov/CDR0000062870.html
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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