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Has anyone had throat cancer and gone through radiation? Doctors are recommending 5 weeks of a lower dose radiaion. What short term or long term side effects did you experience.
The radiation will be of left tonsil.
Thank you in advance!
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Hi @kahoun1 , this is the place. Just do a little browsing. Many of us here can help you along this path. Courage.
Hi kahoun1,
In addition to @jersey3422 helpful comments, I had 35 rounds of radiation for a total of 70Gy (7 weeks) and 3 rounds of cisplatin chemo for left tonsil cancer back in 2008 and I did research then and found in an England Journal of Medicine that honey could help soothe the throat. I did shots of real honey not the ones you find in your local grocery store which most all are synthetic and don’t have the same benefits. It definitely took some of the edge off for me.
I would use Manuka honey which you can find on Amazon that scores at least UMF 10+ and MGO rating of 100+ are considered potent enough for medicinal use- UMF ranges from 10 to 25, the higher the rating, the more potent the benefits are, and of course, the more expensive, the honey.
Hope this helps and you will get better. Good luck on the journey.
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@kahoun1, I moved your question about throat cancer and radiation to this exisiting discussion in the Head & Neck Cancer support group so you can connect with others
- HPV Throat Cancer
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/hpv-throat-cancer/
You can also use the group search function to find discussions related to radiation https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/head-neck-cancer/?search=radiation&index=discussions
When do you start radiation treatment? Will you have daily treatment M-F for the 5 weeks?