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Relief from Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome
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Has anyone had fat grafting to battle radiation fibrosis? Surgeon in Florida is using fat grafting to great effect. Patients have had voice, neck mobility and saliva return after grafting. I am still trying to contact doctors using fat grafting technique. Nearly impossible to get on waiting lists.
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@chubbell42
I posted this a bit ago. DM me if you want more info.
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Had SCC on the base of my tongue and a couple of lymph nodes in 2020 and was treated with radiation and chemo. Like many of you, I had pretty severe fibrosis in my neck.
In the past month, I had a combination of 2 treatments at Mayo in Phoenix. First, I had Botox injections in my neck to relieve some of the stiffness in the muscles. Those were followed up with a surgery called fat grafting, where they harvest fat cells from your body (belly for me), and inject those cells into your neck to soften the fibrosis. They also breakup some of large fibrotic cords. It has relieved just about all of my pain and much of the stiffness.