| "OCF Down Under" Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 453 | Thanks everyone for your advise. It really helps although some of it is like a different language that I suppose in time I will learn. When you talk about rehydration do you mean if he doesn't drink enough water etc during treatment? I feel full of silly questions but I know if I don't ask I'll never understand. I'm making a list of all of the things to be prepared for and to ask the doctor's. Things I never would have known of if it wasn't for all of you x
Wife to Steve 43. DX 5 May 09. T4N2MO SCC tongue, floor of mouth, lymph nodes & jaw bone
No surgery
radiation 13/07/2009 x 7wks
chemo 15/07/2009 x 3 Cisplatin
last TX 28/08/2009
25/11/2009 PET-lymph node activity.
08/01/2010 CT Scan-ALL CLEAR
03/03/2010-Peg removed
01/2013 left side of Jaw removed and replaced with pectoral flap.
23/12/2020 scan show lesion in tongue
01/2021 SCC stage 3 base of tongue diagnosed
01/03/2021 chemotherapy started.
17/03/22 lost the battle. Missed dearly
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