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#99603 07-16-2009 11:48 AM | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 64 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 64 | Has anyone ever heard of a "cookie swallow" if so do you know what's done? Is it painful etc?
Thanks
Pat
Crgvr to Husband 55-yrs, surgery to remove cyst-diagnosed as SCC, 4/3/09 CT & Pet Scan showed more cancer in left lymph node and primary at the base of the tongue.TX Radiation 7 weeks 5 days a week last day is 6/25/09
Chemo completed 6/19/09
Peg Tube 5/22/09
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 64 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | OP Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 64 | I thought for sure someone who know what they were telling me. It is some type of swallowing test. Do I have this is the wrong catagory?
Pat'
Crgvr to Husband 55-yrs, surgery to remove cyst-diagnosed as SCC, 4/3/09 CT & Pet Scan showed more cancer in left lymph node and primary at the base of the tongue.TX Radiation 7 weeks 5 days a week last day is 6/25/09
Chemo completed 6/19/09
Peg Tube 5/22/09
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 40 "OCF Canuck" Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | "OCF Canuck" Contributing Member (25+ posts)
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Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | It's another name for Barium swallowing test using fluoroscopic techniques. I learned something new. Better, direct link is http://www.radiographicceu.com/article23.html .
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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