#92757 03-28-2009 08:41 PM | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 97 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 97 | Hey, We have discussed alcohol based mouth washes, smoking, drinking � Here is something on hot beverages. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/27/hot-tea-cancer.html?campaign=w01-101-ae-0003 UncleVern
ENT conjectures before, no PET approved by HMO. Metastasis 11/06. CT 2/07: mass RT sub-mandibular gland. 7 CM mass/tonsil, base of tongue removed, biopsies 2/07 and 3/07. Vein lost, RT face numb. PET scan: spot in chest, un-investigated. Oral surgery 4/07. 3X Cisplatin and 32X IMRT from 4/07-5/07.
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Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Thanks Vern for giving me yet another answer to the ubiquitous "How did you get it, Smoking?" "Piping Hot Tea" is a great one, whether true or not since if you just honestly deny smoking, you often get that "oh yeah sure" look from those who think they "know" only smokers and drunks get this.
65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Passed away 4-29-13
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Let's try this one too. I nursed when I was a baby and my mother helped in the garden. The insecticides were on the veggies and she had to inhale the dust from them?? LOL Now really, that is plausible . Flying without wings is too.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 97 | Ok, here is a good one for you:
22 year old Mormon, never smoked or drank. Diagnosed with SCC and we guess it was due to the ozone and ash from his primary occupation and a welder?
This is one factor that I have in common with him as I spent years running a carbon arc image burner. I can't say that was the only risk factor that I had, chemical gasses ... but an interesting connection.
Or maybe it's just the luck of the draw??
ENT conjectures before, no PET approved by HMO. Metastasis 11/06. CT 2/07: mass RT sub-mandibular gland. 7 CM mass/tonsil, base of tongue removed, biopsies 2/07 and 3/07. Vein lost, RT face numb. PET scan: spot in chest, un-investigated. Oral surgery 4/07. 3X Cisplatin and 32X IMRT from 4/07-5/07.
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Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 | Anyone putting 150 degree plus (or hotter) liquids down their throat has issues that go beyond oral caner. That this got published, and of course picked up by the main media has everyone in the oral cancer scientific community laughing.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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