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Severe Radiation burns from adverse reaction to mask from treatment
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Dec 26, 2022 | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
In order to get the attention your boyfriend really needs, he needs to let the team know he does not want to continue treatment. My husband was not doing well with his radiation and no one suggested a break, or that he needed checked for infection etc. once he told them he was not continuing treatment, they came up with multiple solutions. The gave him a week break from radiation and he was sent to acute care and admitted because he had an infection and was severely dehydrated
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Thank you for this suggestion! I’ll try anything if it will help him not have to suffer any more.
How long ago did your husband go through radiation? Has he gotten back to a normal healthy life? My concern is that this much damage will make not only recovery more difficult, he’ll have greater risk of worse scaring, fibrosis, (speaking, swallowing) trismis, lymphedema and secondary cancers. No one (doctors, other medical professionals) want to talk about this and if there is something that can be done. They give us more generalities.