Nasopharyngeal cancer survivor

Hi I've just been diagnosed with stage 4 npc I am evb and hpv negative so it's happened from smoking I'm just trying to gather some information as to how people have coped ive been given a 60% survival chance

Oh just 1 last thing I've read some of the posts and no one mentions anything about teeth removal anyone eles had this done 

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  • Hi Villa1! How's it going? I've been diagnosed with stage 3 npc with ebv positive recently. I don't really have information because I'm also dealing with it now. Feel free to contact me if you want to talk!

    For the teeth removal, yes, I heard that usually they would remove the bad teeth and the wisdom teeth, but for my cancer, I didn't get any teeth removed.

     

  • Hey Hea_d

    I'm all good at the minute just had teeth out and start chemo 21st which I'm not that nervous about yet which is concerning me. How are you doing have you started any treatment yet ?.if you don't mind how did you find out you had npc what where your symptoms ?.

  • Hey Villa1,

     

    I'm doing good. I'm getting my fertility preservation done. And probably I'm going to start my treatments 20th. My symptoms started when I felt my left ear blocked after my flights. And I went to see the GP, she spotted a swollen lump on my left neck. 

    What about you, if you don't mind me asking?

     

  • Hi Hea_d

    Mine started back In March caught a really heavy cold loads of congestion in face and as it was wearing off my hearing went in right ear, after a lot of visits to my doctors I was sent to see a ent doctor in May  who refered me to the hospital and since then it just all been a whirl wind of appointments  I honestly thought I just had an inner ear problem or a problem with eustachian tube not npc.

    You been told what treatment you will be having ? 

    Hope your fertility presevation goes well 

     

  • I'll have 3 circles of induction chemo and then 30 radiotherapy along with other circles of chemo.

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