Throat cancer recurrence
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Don't bother with Total T4; you need both Free T4 and Free T3. Those are the only ones that will give useful information.
If an upper GI showed that things are getting stuck in your throat, you may have more than one problem. There's a ring in your throat, called a Schatzki ring, which sometimes closes up and causes food to get stuck. If this happens, they have to go in and stretch that ring; done via endoscopy.
I just got my Free T3 number: 366 (normal range per the lab is 230-420), so it's in the normal range, but toward the high end of normal. This scares me, because it was 371 before my surgery last year. It was down at 346 in December. Should this scare me? Is this evidence that I have some kind of bad development going on in my thyroid?
I had a double masectomy 1-1/2 years ago and have finished chemo treatments in April of 08 and now I am on Femara for about a year. My question is can I get a recurrence of cancer of some sort (i know it won't be breast) while I'm actually still using Femara?
The surgical notes and pathology state that all cancer was contained in the thyroid, was removed, and it had not spread. Could a recurrence happen in 6 months? Could the cancer jump to lymph nodes far away? This seems so odd to me.
A year later (because of family diagnoses of papillary carcinoma) I decided to have the left lobe removed which was completely free of nodules or cancer. Two years after the 2nd surgery I had a recurrence in the thyroid bed (and some in the liver). Even though the original cancer was small and encapsulated microcancers regrew in the remaining thyroid tissue.
If cancer is suspected a complete thyroidectomy (with possible RAI) is the standard course of action because of the microcancers.
my husband has developed skin nodules on his throat, above his stoma, after he had
radiation, chemo and eventually a total larangetomy. The 1st one was removed and
it was cancerous, now he has 2 more and they seemed to attach to each other.
is inaccurate here, because it implies that the cancer is in the muscle or bone. This type of recurrence appears in the skin and fat sitting where the breast was before; only rarely does it include the muscle. About 10 percent of all women treated for breast cancer with a mastectomy will have this type of recurrence. Ninety percent of these recurrences happen within the first five years after the mastectomy.
As far as your chances of recurrence; this is a subject you should discuss with your Oncologist who has all your medical records and everything that may apply to your particular case. There are percentages out there but they are so general that it's hard to know how they would relate to your particular situation.Your hormone receptors would be positive since you mention that you are on Hormone Therapy to lessen the chance of a recurrence. Regards ....
I was sent for CAT scan of chest, abdomin and pelvic and while that came back inconclusive, my doctor was proactive and performed an exploratory laparoscomy. She found some cancer cells on my bowels and there was some fluid behind my liver with cancer cells. She did tell me that while it is back, she had never caught a recurrence this early before and was glad that I knew my body so well.
She is starting me on 6 rounds of Carboplatin and Taxol again.
I do not have a cold, its not a sore throat but my NECK that hurts. There are no white spots in my mouth or back of my throat, and it is not red.
Now I am getting winded doing normal activities, I have to stop and catch my breath. Has anyone had a local recurrence with symptoms like this? Again, I cant see a doc and not go bankrupt until May 1st so any advice would be welcomed.
I do not have a cold, its not a sore throat but my NECK that hurts. There are no white spots in my mouth or back of my throat, and it is not red.
Now I am getting winded doing normal activities, I have to stop and catch my breath. Has anyone had a local recurrence with symptoms like this? Again, I cant see a doc and not go bankrupt until May 1st so any advice would be welcomed.
This is a tumor marker which is probably useful for detecting colorectal cancer recurrence, but is not very specific or sensitive for detecting lung cancer recurrence. Given your husband's previous background of cancer, his persistent neck pains should be checked for any possibility of metastatic spread to the cervical spine. I would have done a bone scan right away and not wait for CEA results to come out (if this is lung cancer recurrence, the CEA is not a good test for it anyway).
I went to see an endocrinologist at Mass General recently, and together we decided to NOT have RAI. The recurrence is about 3% for most folks, but since my cancer was multifocal, the recurrence rate goes up to 5% according to this doctor. Also, he told me that there have been no good studies to prove that RAI prevents recurrence. There was no cancer in the lymph nodes that were removed, so I'm going with taking the 5% chance that the cancer will recur.
Had sore throat for a while ... family doctor sent me to US and diagnosed with a complex node around 14mm x 13 x 10mm and a second cyst so small that the doctors don't want to bother about
did US guided FNA come out to was a adenomas tumor with recent herromage (or something recent bleeding).. this was back in Sept 2007,.
I have a need to know whether or not this constitutes a recurrence. I need to have a yes or no answer to be able to deal with it rationally. The maybe/maybe not scenario that I keep getting is turning me into a crazy person!
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Wondering if an ovarian cancer recurrence could be responsible for the back pain and fatigue I've been having? Also have many of the same symptoms that I had before the cancer was found the first time, such as not being able to eat a lot at one time, muscle aches, severe back pain and fatigue. My last MRI showed a prominent bilateral inguinal node and I think this can be a sign of recurrence.
Do her symptoms indicate a possibility of colon cancer recurrence. I am handling being her caregiver alone as the rest of my family refuses to help. Any suggestions would be so appreciated.
Although the risk of recurrence drops with every passing year, it is always possible to have a recurrence. For this reason, many women choose annual follow up with their oncologist.
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