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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 489 | I am listening to a story on CBS news right now about a study that they did following women who drank alcohol that is stating that the highest risk was for breast cancer occurrence. I am going to start searching the web for the stream of this but they barely mentioned oral cancer and not as oral cancer, but as esophogas cancer, throat cancer etc. and only associated it with alcohol and smoking. I am not real pleased with what I just heard.
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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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