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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 143 | Yes Cheryl it is OC mets. My FIL used to be a smoker until the age of 35. We will be certain about the final prognosis in a few weeks after the CT-Scan. I am not sure about the biopsy but based on her email, there were several small tumors all over her lungs.
Joyce March 1940 to January 2014
A wife, a mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
She fought oral cancer from late 2009 to Early 2014.
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 618 | This looks like palliative care for end of life treatment.
This is how they explained palliative care to me when U of M was going to start that course of treatment.
They put you on a chemo program and monitor how effective it is. The goal is to stop the growth or even shrink the tumors. If this is working they continue until it stops working. Once it stops working they just monitor you.
On average, the chemo adds 2 to 4 months of life before it stops working. Some patients can go out 18-24 months but this is rare. The average survival time for an oral cancer patient once on palliative care is 9 months.
Lucky for me I had a trial I qualified for and could opt out of the U of M plan. If I had no other choice I was wondering if I would have subjected myself to all the chemo side effects for just a few months� time.
Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR
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