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@thomason

Hello @mytime62. We are about the same age...I am a 65-year-old woman. It took over one year to get my voice and swallowing mechanism to start working again after radiation treatments for throat cancer. Right now, your cancer is on the tongue, and you say the treatment will be too hard on your family. Please reconsider your game plan. Lady, you are way too young to stop fighting. You have done it before; you can do it again. God will be with you, and so will the prayers of many people that know you. If interested, look up my past contributions on this site. One thing I utilized was "Red-light therapy." It did help my throat to heal and begin functioning properly and can be used on the tongue area as well. A little wand is around $20.00 on eBay. The moderators Mr. Olsen and Sue gave great advice concerning searching for newer drug treatments. Just do not give up! We are all in this together.

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Thank you, I’m praying about it

I have tongue cancer. After chemo it shrunk considerably. But I also had quite a bit of radiation that I wish I wouldn't have had. Part of tongue is gone. So now I have to do a lot of exercises and speech therapy to get tongue muscles moving again. And the extra saliva and mucus in my mouth is very embarrassing. What is the wand to help on EBay? I want to eat again normally. I never lost my sense of smell or taste. Chemo and ketruda destroying the cancer cells and has not spread anywhere else. Drs said the only way to tell if there is cancer there yet is to do biopsy. I am hoping for it to be gone. Please get some treatment for your tongue cancer. It can be gone with infusions. I am very thankful to my oncologist who came up with my treatment plan and it has worked. So please check around for help. I am sure your family would want you to fight this. I go to Rochester Mayo in Minnesota. They have been a tremendous help. God Bless you and all of us cancer people who keep fighting the fight!