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Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 596 | Hi, Steve.
I hope you're hanging in there. You certainly have been through more than your fair share of this cancer stuff!
I just wanted to say that I also had carboplatin and taxol, with good results thus far. I didn't think the chemo was so hard to endure physically. I wasn't all that sick. The rads were a different story. I don't have any neuropathy, thankfully, but I have one hell of a case of chemobrain still. Sometimes my ears ring, but that can be due to stress.
I wish all the luck in the world! Keep fighting!
Love and hope in OCF,
Kerri
37 y/o fem at Dx (23 wks preg @ dx on 3/16/11)
SCC L oral tongue (no risk factors)
L partial gloss/MND 3/28/11 @ 25 wks preg
T1-2N0M0; no rads/chemo
Tonsillectomy on 8/6/12 +SCC L tonsil T2-3N1M0 (HPV-)
Treated with 35 rads/7 carbo & taxol (Rx ended 10/31/12), but many hospitalizations d/t complications from rx.
Various scans since rx ended are NED!
Part of genetic study for rare cancers @ MGH.
44 years old now...I wasn't sure I would make it! Hoping for 40 more!
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Joined: Nov 2014 Posts: 66 |
HPV+ P16 positive squamous cell carcinoma
Oct 2014 found neck node lumps
Went to Oncologist (TNBC)
Ultrasound
2 CT Scans - body/head and neck
Needle & core biopsy
Pet Scan
Biopsy to find primary w/ anesthesia - failed
Second Opinion found primary & biopsied
Biopsy confirmed HPV+ P16 Squamous cell carcinoma
Radical Neck Dissection 11/22/2014
32 lymph nodes removed - 3 positive
Ported 12/29/14
Chemo and rads to start January 5, 2015
cisplatin weekly 40 mg/m2
Rads M-F for 7 weeks
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