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My Husband Was Just Diagnosed With Squamous Cell Carcinoma

By missyr70 · New reply 12:46 am
Discussion in Taking charge: How to be a proactive patient · 30 replies
Just last Wednesday my husband was diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the head and neck. He begins radiation therapy next week. His cancer is stage 4. What they are saying is,they don't think there ...

I.V Iron infusion

By CarolinaGirl77 · New reply yesterday at 11:35 pm
Journal · 1 reply
Things have been going great the last four weeks since my thyroid surgery. I think I pushed myself to hard and long the last week or two. I woke up this morning and my body didn't want to cooperate with ...

Five million

By Brian · New reply yesterday at 8:08 pm
Journal · 243 replies
Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

To Everyone

By ChuckSan · New reply yesterday at 7:19 pm
Journal · 2 replies
I see people come and I see them go. I also see them disappear. We all have similar stories and yet our lives were different and now forever changed. Things happen to all kinds of people for all kinds ...

erbitux Side Effects

By sardo · New reply yesterday at 5:45 pm
Discussion in Treatment · 12 replies
My husband has had two erbitux treatments and his face is already read and breaking out. Just wanted to know what treatments others have used for this. He has a Rx for antibiotics but has not started ...

Treatment day one

By jennufer · New reply yesterday at 5:38 pm
Discussion in Family and friends · 2 replies
My Mother was diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma last June and had a partial tongue disection. We thought that was the end of it and she was doing fine until a couple of months ago when she noticed ...

affects from his treatmentsand when can he start eating

By 2bfreezie · New reply yesterday at 11:54 am
Discussion in Taking charge: How to be a proactive patient · 3 replies
Since my husbands chemo and radiation treatments he hands shake and his body terribles not all the time but a lot. I would say about 60% of the time. Has anyone else had this problem? Also it has been ...

JUNE 16th damn the beast

By PeneM · New reply yesterday at 8:46 am
Journal · 1 reply
Happy Birthday to my dear Mother, who is in her heaven. Breast cancer took her in 2001. Hooray to the Supreme court for nixing those buggers who wanted to patent OUR GENES, now if only we could work on ...

things are harder enough

By 2bfreezie · New reply yesterday at 8:39 am
Discussion in Family and friends · 6 replies
Not sure if the right people will see this post but I need to try. Dealing with cancer is hard enough and most of us go to web sites to get information. Well I think it is a real large pain to have to ...

Hyperbaric oxygen...

By PeneM · New reply yesterday at 5:48 am
Journal · 4 replies
just a few more till 5 extractions... and one implant. dentist says he wants to use me as a guinea pig. won't be the first time. thinking beautiful thoughts, and masses of gratitude... for healing ...

Anyone on agressive 21 day chemo

By ChuckSan · New reply yesterday at 12:02 am
Discussion in Living with head and neck cancer · 6 replies
It's been over a year dealing with all of this. Unable to do study because Chuck is HPV-. But trying another more aggressive chemo every 21 days. This time hair loss, more fatique and more weight loss ...

Head and Neck cancer: supplementary feeding

By JRF_Ncl · New reply June 15, 2013
Discussion in Living with head and neck cancer · 15 replies
Would those of you who have had HNC help me out? I would like to compare the pros and cons of using a PEG as opposed to a nasal tube for supplementary feeding during/after treatment. Could you tell me ...

Diagnosed with low grade submandibular mucoepidermoid

By davidmmp · New reply June 15, 2013
Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 10 replies
I am 51 years old male, two week ago I was diagnosed with submandibular mucoepidermoid cancer, surgery is the first step and i was repeatedly told it's rare cancer and the surgery is very tricky. I'm ...

post surgery of tumor removal

By kevint · New reply June 14, 2013
Discussion in Treatment · 6 replies
Hi Everybody: I had a tumor on the left side of my neck about the size of a baseball. it started as tongue cancer and effected one of my lymph nodes. through errors and errogance of my doc, the cancer ...

Hear trouble with cancer recovery

By jbesk · Posted June 14, 2013
Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 0 replies
I have just been told I have to have a pacemaker. I have Bradycardia....extremely slow heart beat. They fear I won't weake up one morning. Has anyone run into this with treatment ...

Need advise on sinus condition

By redbird53 · New reply June 13, 2013
Discussion in Early detection and testing · 8 replies
I suddenly got a very bad headache on my left temple three nights ago. Got to my doctor and he was worried, and orderd an MRI but gave me some pain reliever and some nasal spray. The pain reliever works ...

Cannabis Oil

By Cascio2 · New reply June 13, 2013
Discussion in Living with head and neck cancer · 3 replies
Wondering if anyone has tried cannabis oil (medicinal marijuana) for tumors? I have ACC Base of Tongue and my tumor is growing with sharp pain again, difficulty swallowing, etc. I am maxed out on radiation ...

Request for Doctor referral

By Merci · New reply June 13, 2013
Discussion in Living with head and neck cancer · 17 replies
Hello there, So I am kind of at the end of my rope. I was wondering if there is anyone out there with any suggestions. Im 4+ years Post Base of Tongue Cancer...I am 47...very active, feeling great, Cancer ...

What is common to facing cancer and experiencing war?

By dribrook · New reply June 13, 2013
Journal · 9 replies
I recently gave a lecture at Walter Reed National Medical Center on the similarities between experiencing war and facing cancer. The similarities are that in both one faces the unknown, have very little ...

MICHAEL DOUGLAS AND "HELLISH THROAT-CANCER!

By geneatbest · New reply June 12, 2013
Discussion in Survivor stories · 52 replies
Read what Michael Douglas has to say about his survivorship with "hellish throat-cancer". Michael Douglas recounts hellish throat-cancer chemo, radiation treatment wwhttp://www.examiner.com/article/michae ...

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The Head and Neck Cancer Alliance Support Community connects patients, families, friends and caregivers for support and inspiration. This community is sponsored by the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance, an Inspire trusted partner.