Bad to the Bone
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-28 13:13:46
come up today I was all set to furnish Dr. O'Sullivan the thumbs up for zapping my tongue when he hit us with a new conjoin of information: there is a "5% to 10% chance" that radiating the tongue ordain cause damage to the chaffer. Repairing that alter can demand surgery. Keep in mind that radiation is so hard on the mouth that doctors mind about even extracting a tooth change surface years after treatment. So jaw surgery? Yikes!My decision to go for it had basically resulted from weighing the risks of cancer recurrence in the tongue against the long-term align effects of radiating the tongue. Until today. I'd thought those long-term effects were the same as those for radiating the neck which I'll undergo regardless. But this jaw thing has thrown me for a loop. I'm back to not knowing what to do. Seeing my renewed hesitance. Dr. O'Sullivan offered to analyse my inspect with a panel of University Health communicate doctors who are meeting this week to discuss cancer patients and their treatments. He expects that they'll agree with Dr. Irish that radiating the play is unnecessary. Even so. Dr. O'Sullivan is worried enough by the sign move of my cancer that he doesn't be to take any chances and so he still recommends treating the tongue. I'm to label him this Thursday to discuss the adorn's thoughts. I can alter my decision then. In the meantime preparation ordain continue for the neck treatment. And so today was also my CT planning appointment which was a reproduce of the mask-making appointment I had measure. They made me a spiffy new mask but were able to use the same pinpoint tattoo which means no playing connect the dots on my chest. I don't have a start-date yet for treatment but they express me it's usually 7 to 10 days after the planning appointment. As for chemotherapy we have our first meeting with the medical oncologist. Dr. Eric Chen next Tuesday. October 9. Let's wish that appointment is less of a jaw-dropper.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://davidwichman.blogspot.com/2007/10/bad-to-bone.html
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