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Tonsil cancer and metastatic SCC
Three weeks ago my 63 years old father was diagnosed with cancer based of the biopsy result on a tumor on his neck, after PET...
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Chronic ear pain and stuffy nose after throat cancer treatment
My husband is experiencing pain in his left ear 3 months after completing radiation and chemotherapy for cancer on his left tonsil. He describes the...
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Metastatic renal cell cancer: Cyst in maxilla bone area
I have metastatic renal cell stage 4 cyst in my left maxilla area, moving horizontally toward sinus. Tried immunotherapy, single med chemo, spoke of radiation,...
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Caregiver spouse needs pre-radiation advice
My 81 year-old husband will be starting radiation in a few weeks for left-side paranasal sinus cancer (carcinoma with basaloid features). What advice or guidance...
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Permanent loss of smell after surgery. Food suggestions?
My husband is 81 and just had sinus cancer surgery (either sarcoma or carcinoma, they're still unsure). His olfactory nerve had to be severed and...
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Hi @kathyheidt and welcome. As other patients read these pages (and they often do) you will...
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Hi @evelynvelasquez and welcome to the Head and Neck cancer group. You present us with the...
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Meet others living with Head & Neck Cancer: Introduce yourself
Welcome to the Head and Neck Cancer group.This is a welcoming, safe place where you can meet other people who are living with head and...
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Possible nerve damage from head radiation
At age 60 in 2010, I was diagnosed with a spindle-cell squamous carcinoma on my right temple. After 5 stages of MOHS which did not...
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Left Tonsil Swollen
Hello!I am posting because I am scared, as I imagine many other are who post here. I have been struggling with sinus/nasal congestion in my...
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can someone help me with this? & how accurate is a PET Scan?
HISTORY: Initial staging mucoepidermoid carcinoma TECHNIQUE: The patient received intravenous injection of 13.38 mCi F18-FDG and skull base to midthigh imaging was performed. Images were...
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Radiation side effects with H&N cancer. When will they ever end?
After receiving a full course of radiotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma to the left tonsil area, lingering side effects had to be faced. My very...