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Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 1 | Just finished 7 weeks of radiation, I feel sometimes there's a lump at the back of my throat, this morning I drank some water, tried to cough up some of the phlegm, and it came out almost bright red. just waiting to hear back from my Dr., if this is normal.
Stage 3 SCC
Radiation
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Good job contacting your Doctor straight away.
Your throat could be raw from radiotherapy treatments. Your Doctor will be the best person to advise you.
Congratulations on finishing radiotherapy treatments. Well done!!
Karen
46 yrs:
Apr 07-SCC 80% entire tongue removed,T4N1M0
Neck/D,Jaw Split, Trache 2 ops,PEG 3.5yrs
30 x rad,6 x Cisplatin,
30 x HBO
Apr'08- flap Recon + ORN Mandibulectomy
(hip bone to reconstruct jaw)
Oct'08 1 Plate out-jaw
Mar'09 Debulk flap
Sep'09/Jan&Nov'10/Feb&Jun'11/Jan&Jul'12/Oct'13/April'14-More surgery
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Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | I coughed up blood from my radiation treatments during the entire second half of my radiation course. They have just trashed that tissue with the treatment. For it to bleed is no surprise. Continue to gargle with your salt water and sodium bicarbonate.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 5,260 Likes: 3 | Yikes!!! Yes defintely have them look at it. You are still pretty early out of rads ( I am 8 weeks) the lump could just be the fact that your throat is still swollen - mine is still tight and sore on and off. And it's easy to irritate it... maybe you ate something that opened up a blister? Good luck!
Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan
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Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 63 | i get occasional traces in my saliva & or phlegm, usually nothing more . dr just says its all the associated traumas around the head & neck and nothing of concern ( easy for him to say !!. ) i think mines more nasal related as i suffered from blood noses a fair bit in my teen years till i got cortirised (sp? now with sometimes the amount of hacking i do to bring up the phlegm or the much needed clearance cough probably upsets a vessel or 2
45 yrs. peg tube jan 07/09 TOTAL GLOSSECTOMY jan 12/09
T3NOscc oral(ex smoker )
open tracheostomy , removed oct 12/09
modified neck dissection lymph nodes I to IV
rectus abdominal flap + full dental removal
30 day radiation treatment ,diagnosed with lung cancer oct 2011
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