Hi Julie, Re: Surviving survivorship: the challenge of late onset dysphagia. In the abstract, the last sentence starts "In this paper": The "paper" is a "a free paper presented at a meeting" & one of its co-authors that I contacted has said "it has some patient images – they have consented for me to use them for presentations but I am a little loathed to forward the presentation itself on because of this. The abstract contains the stats regarding this anyway". If you give me your email address, I can send you the complete paper: Dysphagia After Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer: Etiology, Clinical Presentation, and Efficacy of Current Treatments June 2010 Regards gboothy ... View more

Hi Jules2, Thanks for that. You're on the ball! The full abstract of "Surviving survivorship: the challenge of late onset dysphagia", is in my link & here on page 9. http://www.anzjsurg.com/SpringboardWebApp/userfiles/anzjs/file/2011%20Tri-Society%20Head%20and%20Neck%20Oncology%20Meeting%281%29.pdf See also in relation to the above, "Effect pretty hard to swallow": http://www.theleader.com.au/story/1239178/effect-pretty-hard-to-swallow/ I have communicated with two Late Onset Radiation Induced Fibrosis sufferers; 14 & 24 years after radiotherapy! My ENT Surgeon tells me that the irradiated patients most likely to develop Late Onset Radiation Induced Fibrosis are: (a) Bilaterally irradiated patients (?) (b) Bilaterally irradiated Oropharyngeal (base of the tongue) Cancer patients. Lesson: Report sudden dysphagia to your ENT Surgeon, and if confirmed, an appointment with a Speech Pathologist may be made to start immediate exercises. For All Members: See: "Dysphagia After Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer: Etiology, Clinical Presentation, and Efficacy of Current Treatments": http://div13perspectives.asha.org/content/19/2/32.abstract A Specialist with privileged access may get you the full paper. Regards gboothy ... View more