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Treatments and side effects

Oxaliplatin Ice may help decrease Side Effects?

I hope this link may help someone who is about to start chemo with Oxaliplatin. It is a small study that shows that keeping ice chips in the mouth during oxaliplatin chemotherapy may prevent cold sensitivity, a common oral side effect. I'm 6 cycles into my treatmen...Read More

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The lighter side of chemotherapy

Hi folks I discovered a positive outcome of chemotherapy. You know... besides the whole killing cancer cells and increasing one's longevity. Whistling! I received my third cycle of Oxaliplatin yesterday afternoon. I'm not even going to bitch about how bad it's made...Read More

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My poo smells foul again

Hi There,I am getting concerned with my poo smelling foul as it smelt before my bowel surgery. I am close to 3 months past surgery now, and it was T2C,N0. Doctors said I don't need chemo so I stuck with it.Bowel habit has been unusual since surgery but manageable s...Read More

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Radiation and mucosis

Hello, I am new to this forum... In June this year my husband was diagnised with an HPV related cancer of his tongue, stage 1. After consulting with a few doctors, he decided to go with Proton radiation and chemo. The surgery was also considered however due to the ...Read More

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Red Blood Transfusion during palliative

Hi,This is my first post here. 3 weeks ago my Dad was diagnosed with cancer. We have been told it is metastatic but we do not know the primary cancer as Dad’s kidneys were failing and he is too unwel for an endoscopy or colonoscopy. About a week after diagnosed Dad...Read More

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Living with head and neck cancer - my video journal

Over the past three years I’ve been living with cancer, a story that is roughly broken into four periods.i – after being mis-diagnosed in 2016 we identified a T4N2c P16+ cancer at base of my tongue that was treated by radiation and chemotherapy in 2017. I was also...Read More

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Obturators

Does anyone currently have an obturator to cover the opening to the sinus cavity. My husband had surgery in March 2019 to remove cancer from his upper gum along with several teeth and part of the roof of the mouth. He is getting very frustrated with trying to eat.

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Sentinel node biopsy

I had a Lumpectomy two weeks age & a sentinel node biopsy, can anyone tell me how long the soreness takes to settle down

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Lack of saliva post radiation

My husband finished radiation June 11. He has gotten his sense of taste back but still has no appetite. He drinks 4 ensure each day and a glass of milk with each. He has gained back 5-7 pounds if the 20 he lost post surgery and during radiation and chemo. He also ...Read More

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A question regarding immune systems?

Hiya everyone I half listened to a bloke the other day who is doing research into cancer and what causes it. He was talking a bit about the immune system and how it is involved with cancer. Here is where it puzzles me. I have not had a virus, cold or flu for...Read More

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