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#60881 05-18-2007 01:14 AM | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 149 Senior Member (100+ posts) | OP  Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 149 | Tumor was on palate, but it spread onto cheek.
There is some stitching and white filler substance.
Anything I can do to speed up healing or improve.
I am cleaning with salt and baking soda solution; water pick in the last month and just rinsing in the beginning.
Dx 10/06 Adenoid Cystic carcinoma; Stage I. Soft palate/minor salivary glands.
Tx surgery 11/06 Tomotherapy (targeted IMRT) 3/07
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#60882 05-18-2007 02:12 AM | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 108 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 108 | I would ask your doctor about Hyberbarric Oxygen therapy to see if it would help. I had to have it for a different reason but saw a lot of healing from it in other areas affected by my surgery and treatment. As always though, your doctor will know best.
Jim
T3N2aM0 SCC right oral tongue. Partial Glosectomy, Modified Neck disection for 1 Lymph Node. Dec. 2002. 35 IMRT 2003.
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