OP Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 100 | They are still finalizing the treatment plan but it seems pretty much that it will be 33 radiation treatments of IMRT at 5000 to 6000. The chemo will be 3 treatments of Cisplatin. They are suppose to be contacting us within the next 2 days to schedule outpatient for the port for chemo and the PEG. Her neck still has about a three inch section where the skin died so we are doing a wet/dry dressing trying to get some new skin growth. They would like to get that to heal up some before starting the radiation/chemo but they still want to stay within the six weeks since surgery. Next appointment is Wednesday with the ENT clinic and would imagine they will give their thumbs up or down to starting treatment on the 15th. I see that David had mentioned that many were going to smaller doses of the chemo rather than the spread out. They are planning the larger spread out for Pam and I see they used the 3 treatments for you also. Did you feel it was too much and would have been better with the smaller doses? I know they mentioned if she couldn't handle the larger doses that they could go to combo with taxal. Pam has already lost about 6 pounds since surgery and doesn't have much to spare (she is 5'2" and today weighed 96#).
Tom-CG to wife, Pam 46@dx Stage IV Tongue Cancer T2N2C Dx 6/08, Surgery 7/08, 3 nodes positive 9/08 33IMRT/7Carbo/Taxol 4/09 node biopsy positive, mets to lungs/stomach 5/09 Cisplatin or Cis/Alimta study 6/09 Cis/Taxotere 9/09 Taxotere 1/10 Xeloda 3/10 Cetuximab weekly 6/29/10 lost battle
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