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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 489 | I agree with Ray - I would really like to have my tongue back so that I could eat real foods. I am sure that the foods I can eat will get better after radiation ends, but there are so many things that may not be possible. How do you adjust??
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SCC Floor of Mouth 7/06
9/06 Surgery, bilateral neck dissection, 58 nodes clear PT2pN0pMx
35 rad 2006
Recurred 6/08, 1 Carboplatin, 1 Cisplatin
Surgery 9/08 - Total glossectomy, free flap from pectoral muscle, left mandible replaced using fibula
35 IMRT & Erbitux 11/08
4/15/09 recurrence
6/1/09 passed away, rest in peace
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