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Severe pain eating 7 weeks post-RT
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@lizzyj58 Hi. You might ask your husband's treatment team if they plan on 3 biweekly 100 mg cisplatin chemotherapy treatments. And if so, why not weekly 40 mg cisplatin treatments. I had the latter. The side effects are significantly less with the weekly lower dose treatment. The research suggests that the key in the chemotherapy's success is to get to a minimum of 200 total mg. If he can tolerate more, then that is better.
My chemo made me nauseous but was completely controlled through antiemetics. I was also very fatigued which got worse over time.
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@metsgirl Thank you for that suggestion, I will ask the oncologist when we see her next week. My husband had the tonsil with the tumor removed, clear margins. But the cancer is in adjacent lymph nodes, don't know how many. I feel like 35 radiation treatments as well as chemo is a lot but we have to trust that his doctor knows best. My husband's is HPV positive 16, apparently this has a very high cure rate , still it's very scary. Thank you so much for replying to my question.