 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | See my post in Medication, Treatment and Procedures.
It may not be mucositus this long after treatment.
If you had IMRT it can take 18 months before your salivary function fully returns. This may also be an indirect cause.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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