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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | There's a mouse in the house? To be sure, Markus. My medical team was very, very clear with me about potential side effects of bth the Erbitux and the cisplatin, started the Erbitux loading dose very slowly and my infusion nurse was on her toes waiting for something to go wrong. My regular MO was out that day, so I had as a substitute the head of the H & N program, who had headed up some of the clinical trials for cisplatin in H & N cancers, so I was in the best hands possible. It turns out, experience makes a huge difference!
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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