Hi Zacker.

I had radio for throat cancer for 6 weeks, when I had a scan and biopsy it showed that my cancer had gone onto the other vocal chord, what has your specialist said it is, is it still T1, I like you thought that it would get better, I was so tired and my voice took a long time to get better, I had a dry throat but I got a spray that gives your throat back saliva. I wont go into what happened to me after as I dont want you to worry about it.

All I can say is wait to see what happens, look on the bright side, in a while later lets see what becomes of your treatment then maybe I will let you know how I got on todate:)

lots of love Michael.

Hi michael thanks for your reply can I ask what stage was your cancer when you had the radiotherapy

Hi

When I had my radio it was after my second biopsy the cancer had moved to my other vocal cord, as I dont smoke the specialist kept asking me if I smoked he said the cancer usually is with someone one that smoked with this type of cancer I had, since then a lot has happened to me with treatment and surgery.

I will not go into what has happened since, as I dont want to worry you, I was unlucky I have had to have surgery and been in hospital for a while, I had to take early retirement because of it , it is 2 years since my trouble started be I am fine now. forgive me for asking are you a lady or a man because I have heard your name for both, so have you been intouch with the doctor to get any info as where you are with treatment and what comes next.

Let me know how you get on, lets hope it donst get any worse like mine did.

love Michael

Ps what I didnt tell you the radio did not help in my case it had moved to much

Hi last time I checked I was male!! I have had 2 laser treatments now and the first one (sept 09) indicated a small surface layer T1, 3 months later i had another laser which showed a slight surface return and during that procedure he did deeper biopsys which were all clear. since then I have been checked each month and while sometimes the area looks inflamed he was happy just to keep an eye on it as he said it could just be scarring from the laser or voice strain and didn't look like the cancer had returned. My last check up yesterday indicated that the swelling looked better and my voice has improved so he is happy to leave things as they are at the moment but if the swelling returns he will want to have a look at it while under anasetic and possibly do another biopsy.

Hi last time I checked I was male!! I have had 2 laser treatments now and the first one (sept 09) indicated a small surface layer T1, 3 months later i had another laser which showed a slight surface return and during that procedure he did deeper biopsys which were all clear. since then I have been checked each month and while sometimes the area looks inflamed he was happy just to keep an eye on it as he said it could just be scarring from the laser or voice strain and didn't look like the cancer had returned. My last check up yesterday indicated that the swelling looked better and my voice has improved so he is happy to leave things as they are at the moment but if the swelling returns he will want to have a look at it while under anasetic and possibly do another biopsy.

Hi

Thanks for the reply, you sound as you are a copy of me, mine reoccurred and my throat was raw it all settled down after a while and my voice came back, then I had to have a second biopsy, that is when they found out it had moved over to the other cord,

I had 2 biopsy's then they said further investigation would have to be taken

to see what would have to be done, did you say you are worried that they might have to do something with you voice box, what did they say about it, are you jumping ahead a bit, I know how you feel I was the same you think of every thing that goeg around in you head, stay possitive.

Let me know if anything changes. :p

Michael.