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 Joined:  Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 8 |  Wishing everyone on the forum a happy Thanksgiving!   Gloria
 She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
 
 Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015.  Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to  July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
 
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 Joined:  Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 8 |  Thank you, Gloria!  
 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
  Christine
 SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44  2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07  -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma  2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years  very happy to be alive    |  |  |   |   |   |  |   |  Joined:  Apr 2017 Posts: 81 Likes: 2 Supporting Member (50+ posts) |   |   Supporting Member (50+ posts) 
 Joined:  Apr 2017 Posts: 81 Likes: 2 |  Chiming in late!  Happy Thanksgiving     Keep fighting friends!
 
 Me -- currently 53 years old
 SCC diagnosed 3/7/2017 at age 48
 Staging SCC HPV+ T0,N1 primary unknown
 PET 3/16, no activity, biopsies 3/23 benign
 TORS surgery identified 2mm tumor in BOT (vallecula)
 Cancer restaged T1, N2, M0
 Begin 30 sessions of radiation (60 Gy) 6/13
 Completed radiation 7/24/2017
 1st MRI clear 10/23/2017!!
 2nd MRI clear 10/17/2018!
 
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