Has anyone had reccurance of throat cancer?

Posted by marilyn138 @marilyn138, Oct 21 11:58am

Has anyone had reaccurance of throat cancer? How many months or years before it happened? What were your systems?
Also anyone have it metasize to the lung, what were your warning signs before having a scan?

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William Olsen, Volunteer Mentor | @hrhwilliam | Oct 21 5:01pm

Hi @marilyn138 and welcome to the Head and Neck Cancer group. We should let your post simmer a while as there are a few here who have had reoccurrence of throat cancers. Can you tell me what kind and perhaps type if known? Cancer! The gift that keeps on giving! Let's get you through this battle again.

marilyn138 | @marilyn138 | Oct 21 6:53pm

I have had HPV16 T1N+ at the base of tongue and had a swollen right lympnode, and they said a little bit of cancer in the right cervical lympnode also. I am post 8 months my last pet scan was clear 4 month ago June 18 2024, just scared of reaccurance, wondering what side effects people had prior to being diagnosed with a reaccurance.

William Olsen, Volunteer Mentor | @hrhwilliam | Oct 21 7:08pm

The worry of reoccurrence is very normal after what we have gone through. For me it has been 23 years and I still think a cough or pain is cancer. It isn’t of course.
The healing is ever so slow. Months and really a couple of years before you reach a normal level that will never be your pre-cancer normal. New things pop up. Pain, nerves, taste, smell all changes. It’s just something else we live with that most folks don’t understand.
My GP and friend advised years ago that if something continues for four weeks, that I should give him a call. Never had to call him.
Courage.