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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 489 | So sorry for your loss David. So sorry that she started smoking again. My ENT asked me the first time around at every appointment if I was still not smoking and I told her that I thought it would be very stupid for me to start again. She told be that she would never ask me again and she hasn't, but I made sure that I told her when I had my recurrence that I had not started smoking again. This was just bad luck. She told me once that not smoking again was the key to not getting the cancer back again.
Patty
48
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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