I was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer in 1992 and then again 1998. I was treated with radiotherapy and chemo both times, the second time I was given brachytherapy as well (internal radiotherapy). Over the years the effects of that treatment a lot of tissue has died I’m my head and neck. The latest being a fistula going through the bone from the nasopharyngeal and exiting through the skin just below my right ear. I have since learned that my facial bones and base of skull are crumbling. I have a chance of being treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy but it depends on how much damage has been done to my lungs by the drug bleomycin, one of the chemo drugs I had in 1993. Other effects of the treatment include almost total deafness, having a tracheostomy and having to feed via a PEG. What else is waiting round the corner!?
