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                    |    |       Joined:  Jun 2009  Posts: 875    "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)   |           "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)    Joined:  Jun 2009  Posts: 875  |    Wendy: WONDERFUL NEWS - I'll join Donna in the Happy Dance for you.  Hope things go great from now on. julieann      
 
Julieann Nov 2007 SCC on right tonsil following tonsillectomy. Was smoker, QUIT. (Stage IV T2 N2b) 7 weeks  radiation one day/wk chemo (carboplatin and 5-FU). Allergic to Taxol; PEG in, lost 30 lbs. TX completed January 2008. PEG out mid- 2008. PET/CT 1/17/2011;2/3/12 NEGATIVE for cancer       |      |       |               |    |       Joined:  May 2012  Posts: 114    Senior Member (100+ posts)   |           Senior Member (100+ posts)    Joined:  May 2012  Posts: 114  |    Congratulations!  What a great feeling!  Happy Birthday as well!        
Amy CG to mom Janet - diag w/ early SCC 8/11-surg w/ rad neck dissect & graft from arm/thigh 9/11-evid in nodes tx 6 wks rads (5/wk) w/cistplatin (1/wk for 6 wks) began 11/11-wk or 2 break 12/11 due to severe side effects-done 1/12- 3/23/12 mets to liver lung bone-hospice 4/7/12-lost fight 4/22/12     |      |       |               |    |       Joined:  Nov 2009  Posts: 493    Platinum Member (300+ posts)   |      OP      Platinum Member (300+ posts)    Joined:  Nov 2009  Posts: 493  |    Great, Wendy!  May we all get to celebrate lots and lots of birthdays!        
Female, nonsmoker, 70, diag. 5/09 after tongue biopsy: stage IV.  Left hemi-gloss. and left selec.  neck disec. 30 lymph nodes removed May 20. Over 7 weeks daily rads. with three chemo. PEG removed 12/4/09  Am eating mostly soft foods. Back to work 11/09 Retired 4/1/11. 7 clear scans! Port out 9/11. 2/13.  It's back: base of tongue, very invasive surgery involving lifestyle changes.    2/14:  Now speaking w/Passey-Muir valve.  Considering a swallow study.  Grateful to be alive.
  |      |       |               |    |       Joined:  Jun 2012  Posts: 24    Member   |           Member    Joined:  Jun 2012  Posts: 24  |    Thanks everyone. All our birthdays should be grandly celebrated - each and every year!!  Here's to old age!  VERY old age. Toot toot.  -Wendy        
Wendy 48@dx Dx 2/11 stgIVSCC BOT  Dx 3/11 stgI breast (3rd of 4 sisters dx'd) 4/11 dbl mastectomy; no further tx reqd 5/11 PEG placemt; 5/11-7/11 chemox7;IMRTx35; MRND 9/11 11/12 Dx:papilledema;hydrocephalus;psuedotumor.  11/12 LumbarPeritoneal Shunt 12/12 PEG Out; 100 lbs lost All scans clear
  |      |       |               |    |       Joined:  Apr 2012  Posts: 47    "OCF across the pond" Contributing Member (25+ posts)   |           "OCF across the pond" Contributing Member (25+ posts)    Joined:  Apr 2012  Posts: 47  |    Hi Wendy Tot toot toot go girl! go! I am just coming back from chemo and radiation and your Bithday post and all clears give me such a lift. 53 year old teenager really with 2 daughters 2 and 4 so I am getiing over the treatment and hoping that the treatment and science have done their bit. Lets hope you are eating things you like every day. CubanKeith.        
21st March squall cells.Endescopy not oesophagus,  ENT .April endo nose CAT MRI general Panendoscopy prim-HPV 16 base of left tongue one node-stage 2.23rd of May.14/5/12 9 teeth out.8/6/12 PICC inserted.11/6/12 1st Chemos 25/6/12 2nd Chemo Cisplatin5FU:27/6/12 PEG23/8/12 Radiation finished 1/9/12.
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