| | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 27 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 27 | This woman is about to lose her tongue after an eight-year fight with oral cancer. She reminds me how lucky I've been to be three years out with no recurrence, but mostly I love her spirit. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130929/COL01/309290056
Randy, Stage 3 tonsil SCC, node involvement, HPV-positive. 7 sessions of Taxol-Carboplatin, 35 rads finished 9/8/10. Post-TX PET and CT 12/1 showed "no metabolic evidence of residual or recurrent disease." Yay!
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Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 262 | She is so brave! Thanks for posting this.
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T3N2aM0 HPV+
5/26/13 discovered painless superball-sized lymph node in neck
6/26/13 DX SCC R palatine tonsil
7/16/13 TORS tonsillectomy & selective ND, mets to 2 nodes
9/3/13 Cisplatin and rads begin, tolerated 1.5 of 3 planned chemo doses
10/16/13 Treatment ends
Dec 13 Ulcer appears at surgery site
Jan 17 Biopsy -- no cancer!
Feb 17 CT/PET Scan lights up tonsil bed & nasal cavity, docs say probably inflammation, don't panic, rescan when ulcer subsides
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Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,671 | Beautiful story and so uplifting indeed! She is doing what we should all be doing in giving a voice to Oral Cancer, and bringing awareness in order to save lives.
Anne-Marie
CG to son, Paul (age 33, non-smoker) SCC Stage 2, Surgery 9/21/06, 1/6 tongue Rt.side removed, +48 lymph nodes neck. IMRTx28 completed 12/19/06. CT scan 7/8/10 Cancer-free! ("spot" on lung from scar tissue related to Pneumonia.)
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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 2013 Posts: 21 | Will show my husband. He will enjoy it, too. Thank you!
CG to husband-
4/2013 - lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma & scc hard palate dx
7/2013 Removed tumor from palate + neck dissection T3NO. Has palatal obturator.
4/2022- lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma mutation to Bing Neel syndrome, BTK inhibitor for tx
7/2023 - lung cancer, resolved with radiation
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