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No need to describe your taste issue. Blood, licking an iron pipe, eating steel, tingling and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/969707/

Discussion: Sore on tongue from treatments: What helps?

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Nov 24, 2023

Please keep us posted on any updates. How are you feeling since radiation?

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/669284/

Discussion: MRI show inflamed lymph node in neck: What does this mean?

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Jan 9, 2022

Thank you for your encouraging words. He has a surgical biopsy next Tuesday 5/6/25 and then...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1291856/

Discussion: What is the survival rate for 65 yr Male w/ squamous cell carcinoma

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Apr 28 10:03am

My husband is being treated for a rare form of cancer: mucosal melanoma. This cancer appeared...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1207514/

Discussion: HPV Tonsil cancer: I'm very nervous about chemo and radiation

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Jan 9 10:06am

Welcome to Connect @coleva. I know how hard it is to wait for treatment to begin....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1017815/

Discussion: How soon did treatment start? Dental issues first

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Feb 18, 2024

Thank you for your response! The doctors need to remove the other tonsil to look for...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/962647/

Discussion: Types of radiation therapy and chemo therapy combinations

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Nov 11, 2023

I have completed 35 sessions of photon radiation this year on my neck and throat. The...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/921893/

Discussion: Swallowing liquids after throat surgery and lymph node dissection

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Aug 31, 2023

I tell my family my cancer was replaced by lifelong radiation side effects.

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1186894/

Discussion: What’s left after "cured" of nasopharyngeal cancer?

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Dec 8, 2024

Hello Julie .. my throat radiation of 10 years past was 100% effective in killing my...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1285689/

Discussion: Late effect stage 4 tonsil & tongue cancer 18 years ago

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Apr 19 8:06pm

My expert with tongue cancer was similar to yours. I did radiation and cisplatin/chemo. The last...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1161296/

Discussion: Diagnosed with tongue cancer (2nd cancer): Worried about treatment

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Oct 23, 2024

Thanks. I am having 15 sessions of photon radiation (2gy each for a total of 30gy).

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/996108/

Discussion: 30 gy radiation side effects

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Jan 12, 2024

They typically would do a surgery on your tongue and then radiation. Unless you can’t have...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/797026/

Discussion: HPV P16 positive cancer

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Jan 15, 2023

I meant 69 Gy for my radiation. This seems excessive considering no lymph nodes are involved.

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/645695/

Discussion: Has anyone had thyroid issues after head and neck radiation?

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Oct 16, 2021

Look into Hyperbaric treatment it has amazing results and should be your answer to get your...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1020429/

Discussion: Strange taste - change in taste

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Feb 22, 2024

I had AS on my cheek removed in 2012 and then 30 radiation treatments. I went...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/845552/

Discussion: Meet others living with Head & Neck Cancer: Introduce yourself

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Posted: Apr 19, 2023

It is amazing how many people have very similar issues to mine. Throat cancer to radiation/chemo...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/811168/

Discussion: HPV P16 positive cancer

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Feb 14, 2023

O Don't that sound familiar, I do, especially Bread, even.my pills, try drinking water before you...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/781900/

Discussion: Scar tissue in throat caused by radiation and chemo treatment

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Dec 7, 2022

That sounds like a very positive outcome so far! Yes I had the drain as well....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1008308/

Discussion: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) P16+

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Feb 2, 2024

@robholdenried, My 7 weeks of radiation was aimed at an area just below my ear due...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/907678/

Discussion: How long before my taste buds recover after H&N treatments?

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Aug 4, 2023

Thank you so much for responding. He has regional spread cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. He will...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/776999/

Discussion: Anyone had Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma?

Support Group: Head & Neck Cancer

Posted: Nov 24, 2022