Dear all, wish you good health. Locally advance non small cell lung cancer is a notorious disease for taking away majority of patients from us within couple of years. I have seen in my practice that majority leave us in two years after diagnosis. Complete response to treatment is rare. Most of my patient are poor and can't afford new drugs. I use cisplatin and etoposide. At times my fellows laugh at me for using older drugs. An old smoker visited me wih diagnosis of NSCLC. His disease was invading mediastinum and aorta was involved radiologically. I opted gentle approch and started with chemotheray. He received four cycles of cisplatin and etoposide. His disease went into complete radiological resopnse. He is on follow up. Without local radiotherapy and consolidation chemotherapy, he is symptom free and disease free for last six months. I wish for his good health.
Thursday 6 February 2014
Cancer took away tongue of my patient
Posted on 03:28 by BREAST CANCER
One year back I started treating a young lady with locally advance squamous cell carcinoma of tongue. She got chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Her tongue necrosed, and she lost it. She lived without tongue for a couple of months. On her lost visit we passed PEG tube, as she was having difficulty in swallowing. Today I got a call from her husband " My wife passed away and she wished for your presence in her funeral".
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