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Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 95 | My story of my recovery from throat cancer was aired on Fox News last night in Washington DC. Enclosed is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3bobLFTU1E I hope that you will find it interesting. Itzhak Brook MD | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Very interesting video Doc. Way to go.
Nice to put a face and a voice (even though a whisper) with your posts. Those GT hallways look all to familiar to me as that was the CCC I was treated at plus the hospital I suffered in.
Nowadays nobody believes it if its not on TV, so thanks for showing that even if the cancer comes back, life goes on.
Charm
PS. NOTE to OCF readers
You Tube pulled up "suggestions to watch" on the right side when I clicked on your link and there was OCF's own video with 32,684 views as well as DavidCPA's gulfport video with less views (See - I can be diplomatic)
65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Passed away 4-29-13
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Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 701 Likes: 1 | I love the video, Doctor Brook. Thanks for sharing it. You look and sound great, too. It sure would be great to see this on tv in my neck of the woods.
Anita (68)
CG to husband, Clark, 79,
DX SCC 11/07, T4N0Mx, PEG 1/08, RAD, post rad infection 3/08,
HBOT 40 dives, ORN, Surg 11/09 mandibulectomy w/fibular graft.
Plastic Surg 4/10, 12/10, 3/11, 10/11, 4/12, 10/12. All PETS clear,
PEG out 1/11. 6/11 non union jaw fracture
Fractured jaw w/surgery 7/14
Aspiration pneumonia 7/21, 10/22
PEG 7/21
Botox injections
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Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,409 | That was inspiring, Dr. Brook. Thanks for sharing it with us, and shalom.
David2
David 2
SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 15 years all clear in 6/24 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18
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Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 147 | After watching this....I wonder as I have so many times, if I should have gone ahead and let the doctor put a trachea tube in Jim.....maybe he would still be with me...whispering is better than death.... I miss him so!
Caregiver to Husband 50 yrs.young-non smoker/non-drinker; Stage IV - all treatments stopped August 2009
Lost the battle November 23, 2010
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Joined: May 2009 Posts: 1,412 | How inspiring. That made me cry. We need more physicians that have a heart like you. I wish I coudl get this video to my PCP and have her watch it. She really needs it. It has made my decision if it ever comes to that. Which, like you I have now had a sore throat for awhile now and it has not gone away and have a big red area in the location. I am on antibiotics for a sinus infection and was hoping that would take care of it, but it is still there. I am trying to get finished with HBO before I do anything. All I have to say is thanks for posting that.
Angelia
31 at Dx.
DX: 4/30/09, 10/21/09 SCC on floor of mouth,
T1NOMO, T2N1M0
TX: 39 IMRT, 8 cisplatin 11/30/09
PET/CT: 11/03/09: Lymph node involvement
PEG/PORT: 11/09
TX end: 02/01/10
PET Scan: 04/05/10 clear
PEG Out: 06/21/10
Biopsy: 12/23/10: fibrosis
HBO: 01/04/11 - ORN
Baby girl born 11-30-12
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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 357 | Itzhak -
That was a wonderful piece.
My dad would like to have met you. He, too, was a laryngctomee and became a patient advocate. When he had his surgery, his only options were to use a battery operated larynx or to learn esophageal speech. Not everyone can master esophageal speech; for most, using the battery-operated larynx was the only way to communicate. My father was determined and persistent and learned to speak without it.
Marlene
Marlene
Marginal mandibulectomy 6/17/08 resulted in DX of Stage I SCC - gingiva (3 mm) right mandible, buccal side. Clear margins. Occasional social drinker. Smoked last cigarette in 1979. Clear pet: 12/08; 7/20/09. Yay!
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Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 95 | Angelia,
Thanks for you kind words. I am sorry that you are sufering from sinusitis. Sinusitis in individuals who had radiation therapy is sometimes caused by different bacteria than in none iradiated individuals. This may require administration of different antibiotics. You may share this with your doctor.
Itzhak Brook MD
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