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Date Page Number Cancer Type Diagnosis Chemo Drugs Treatment Quality of Life Information Gathering General Comments
10/20/2007
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5622 MOUTH Tumour in the tongue 1992. Unrelated Thyroid canc... ... Treatment = Hemiglossectomy. Treatment = Thyroidec... Good! Speech & Physiotherapy helped!... I have written and published a book 'Safe In The S... ...
10/01/2006
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5435 MOUTH sever epithelial dysplasia conclusion carcinoma in... ... ... ... ... ...
12/29/2005
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4458 MOUTH Cancer of the tongue. Squamus Cell Carcinoma diagn... ... Surgery... Good now,uncertain how next surgery will effect qu... Internet... Doctor at large university medical center says the...
11/14/2005
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4434 MOUTH My dad was diagnosed with cancer on his tongue in ... N/A... Major Surgery, 10 hours.... Dad is now back at work and doing really well. Ha... None really available... I really hope my experience can help others in the...
10/07/2005
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4407 MOUTH I was diagnosed with cancer of the tongue in Augus... Radiotherapy, 6 weeks of intense radiotherapy plus... Most of my left side of my tongue down to the tip ... It took a long time to get over radio therapy, muc... I didn't bother to find out any information before... Since I have been well enough to get on with my li...
04/04/2005
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4331 MOUTH LOWER JAW, AND TONGUE,MOUTH FLOOR.... NONE... RADIATION, IT WAS EASY I HAVE A PORT SO I GOT HOOK... I CAN NOT BITE OR CHEW EXCEPT ON 1INCH OF MY BACK ... IT WAS A PAINLESS OPERATION. GOOD DR'S I ONLY HAD ... I HAVE NO IDEA, WHAT TO COMMENT ON EXCEPT I WILL N...
10/27/2004
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4284 MOUTH Mother 78 years old. Quit smoking 1989. Diagnosed ... Taxol 2 times. Running low grade fever at 3rd chem... Opted for radical neck and radiation only. Had 2 ... Period during radiation was very uncomfortable for... ... Awful disease. Make sure to have dentist check yo...
08/09/2004
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4260 MOUTH my dad was diognosed in september 2003 with mouth,... Morphine... radioation theopy... 9 months... ... ...
07/28/2004
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4253 MOUTH My brother smoked and drank heavily for many years... ... ... ... ... ...
05/27/2004
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4232 MOUTH In June 2002 I noticed a lump right at the back of... Chemotherapy is not very effective for this tumour... Owing to the location of the tumour at the base of... It is almost two years since I first noticed my tu... I was fortunate enough to be diagnosed and treated... All conventional cancer treatment is brutal and re...
02/20/2004
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4187 MOUTH UPDATE: I wrote before about my jawbone being remo... None... 6 weeks radiotherapy and removal of lower left jaw... ... ... ...
11/26/2003
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4151 MOUTH My spouse was daignosed with tongue cancer, stage ... No chemo drugs used. Radiation was used for 37 tr... Tongue surgery to remove cancer. 37 treatments of... What quality of life? The radiation did a lot of ... Internet, doctors, literature ... Tongue cancer or mouth cancer is passed as nothing...
08/18/2003
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4101 MOUTH Squamous cell carcinoma of the lining of the mouth... None... First I had all my teeth removed as it was felt th... The scars on my neck have been done beautifully an... I am an oncology nurse but still wasn't prepared f... ...
09/26/2002
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3922 MOUTH I am a 42 year old female who was diagnosed with t... ... I have been going back to the ENT Specialist quite... My quality of life is good now. I try to eat lots ... ... ...
05/20/2002
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3820 MOUTH In January, 2000, I was diagnosed with a squa... None.... 31 sessions of radiation.... Gradually getting better. After two years and 5 m... Magazines, news articles.... Your cancer is a part of your life which must be a...
04/25/2002
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3764 MOUTH I was diagosised in 1999 with neck cancer.Had radi... No chemo, but had 35 radiation treatment's prior t... had a operation to remove tongue because of cancer... ... ... ...
04/24/2002
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3762 MOUTH Girl at work found out her son has cancer in his g... ... ... ... ... ...
04/09/2002
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3742 MOUTH In 1995, at age 23, I went to an ENT complaining a... None... Needless to say I did not return to my original EN... Initially, after the surgery, I took it easy and s... UCSF Cancer Library + Internet... My treatment was pretty radical for one small tumo...
03/19/2002
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3720 MOUTH mouth and throat... ... 11 hour operation + radiotherapy... shit. Unable to eat and unable to speak ... They only tell you what they need you to know. I w... They say the Cancer can come back but I will NEVER...
03/14/2002
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3707 MOUTH My husband was diagnosed with tongue cancer in 199... ... He had most of his tongue removed and they used ab... The only thing he can eat must be blended to a smo... ... He would like to be able to communicate with peopl...
11/17/2001
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3536 MOUTH My Dad was diagnosed with mouth cancer 2 years pas... ... My Dad had major surgery, 16 hours in theatre, he ... I don't feel that my Dad is living life to the ful... Mainly myself as I have access to a lot of informa... I wish that there was more support around for peop...
10/09/2001
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3433 MOUTH My mother had a sore on her tongue that would not ... ... ... ... ... ...
06/13/2001
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2761 MOUTH Actually, I had a naso-pharangeal tumor that sprea... No chemo. Just cobalt therapy for me. It was 196... A month of cobalt therapy.... The pits. I lost my hearing from the cobalt thera... What does this mean? What a non-descript phrase, ... ...
06/04/2001
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2706 MOUTH I have had surgery to remove the small tumour foun... None... As described above... Held back by the belief as i had no syptoms whatso... ... ...
05/08/2001
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2588 MOUTH My co worker was just diagnosed with mouth cancer ... ... ... ... ... the gentlemen from England with the tongue cancer ...

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