Radiotherapy for Throat Cancer

Hello all,

I have posted my little story on introduce yourself and basically I have been diagnosed with Stage 1 Throat cancer.

The prognosis is hopeful and I remain cheerful and positive. Its taken a while for the actual treatment to start so glad to get on with it at last.

I started my first day of radiotherpy today and have 29 more treatments to go over 6 week period.
I have made a little computer programme that logs my side effects and summarises episodes of each heading and I plan on keeping a daily log of how things went/ how I feel ( good and bad ) and map out my journey. I find it therapuetic.

I will share periodically in the hope that even if it helps one person as well as myself  it will be worthwhile.

So day 1 was fine and I dont really feel any difference or notice anything.
One small point is that the mask made was slightly harder than when it was first made as it has set little harder over the weeks and was a little more moveable on the day made.
Took about 10 mins for actual radiotherpay treatment itself.
Drove home fine.

Meet with advanced practioner nurse every Thurs to discuss progress.
Aware might be a little different along the way but all good after day 1.

 

kind regards

Ian

 

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  • Hi Laura,

    Wishing Mick and yourself good wishes at this particular moment as pretty much when all the treatment starts.

    As Hazel says its pre emptive regarding the teeth and I had similar surgery with all my back teeth out before mask and treatment started. Aparatntly the radiaotherpy can cause quite a bit of damage to teeth and its more problematic to deal with if not removed and hence why necessary.
    May also delay radiotherapy treatment a little to allow time for jaw to settle down a bit, but hopefully not too long.

    Hang in there my friends and again its not the easiest of journeys but we are all different and side effects vary from person to person so hopefully kept to a minimum.

    Light at the end of the tunnel and stay as strong and as positive as you can.

    Ask away anything you want or chat away and if please let me know if there is anything I can do to help in anyway.

    Kind regards

    ian

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  • Hi Laura,

    Wishing Mick and yourself good wishes at this particular moment as pretty much when all the treatment starts.

    As Hazel says its pre emptive regarding the teeth and I had similar surgery with all my back teeth out before mask and treatment started. Aparatntly the radiaotherpy can cause quite a bit of damage to teeth and its more problematic to deal with if not removed and hence why necessary.
    May also delay radiotherapy treatment a little to allow time for jaw to settle down a bit, but hopefully not too long.

    Hang in there my friends and again its not the easiest of journeys but we are all different and side effects vary from person to person so hopefully kept to a minimum.

    Light at the end of the tunnel and stay as strong and as positive as you can.

    Ask away anything you want or chat away and if please let me know if there is anything I can do to help in anyway.

    Kind regards

    ian

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