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A 28-year old asked:
What are the goals of nutrition during radiation therapy for the head and neck ?
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A 34-year old asked:
What should I expect after radiation therapy for head and neck cancer?
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A 58-year old female asked:
Can xenaderm be used to the tumor area while receiving radiation therapy to the neck for thyroid ca. The skin is still intact.?
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A 55-year old male asked about a 55-year old female:
My mother has completed head IMRT radiation therapy 3 weeks before. Since last 2 weeks she is not able to swallow even any fluids and water because if severe soar throat and dry mouth. Could you please give any medications for this problem.
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A 40-year old asked:
How effective is radiation treatment for squamous cell head and neck cancer?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Is it possible for someone who has had previous radiation (IMRT) to the head and neck to have a total thyroidectomy to treat Graves? The radiation was done fifteen years ago as adjuvant treatment for parotid cancer due to a positive surgical margin?
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A 39-year old asked:
Will my taste-buds return after radiation treatment to face and neck?
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A 40-year old asked:
What's the expert opinion, could the taste-buds return after radiation treatment to face and neck?
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A 64-year old female asked:
I had a benign mengimoa 50 % removed then 28 treatments of radiation. Can the radiation cause throat cancer or does it stay only in the head .
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A 33-year old asked:
How long will it take for hair to grow back after receiving radiation therapy on the head?
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A 38-year old asked:
Is it normal for my head to swell after radiation therapy?
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A 60-year old male asked:
Do people typically loose their head hair when treated with chemotherapy or radiation therapy, or both. How long is hair loss for?
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A 40-year old asked:
Is it normal to have a sore throat after radiation beam therapy to the neck?
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A 45-year old female asked:
I keep hearing nightmares about whole head radiation therapy is it that bad for you for small cell lung cancer of the brain?
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A 49-year old asked:
Why must someone have all their teeth extracted prior to receiving radiation to the head and neck?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Just started physical therapy for forward head posture and upper crossed syndrome. I'm feeling spaced out/drunk. I think there is neck degeneration.
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A 21-year old female asked:
Pain in neck/all around R scapula; weakness/heaviness in upper R arm-- radiation down arm when lifting above head/out to the side. Nerve involvement?
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A 70-year old female asked:
What is the average life expectancy or duration life for a head and neck cancer patient who has been treated with radiation?
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A 51-year old male asked:
Injection, and therapy not working, right arm struggles with a 5lbs tricep extension and neck feels so weak like my head wants to fall off any suggest?
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A 19-year old male asked:
After hitting the back of my head on a wall i now have a sore neck & heat radiation from the spot where i hit myself to my neck and ears. Is this ok?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Went to vertigo therapy and the pulling of my neck helped with the heaviness in the middle of my head and the tingling and helped out with my vescrlae (inner ear) problem what can be going on if that head pull helped?
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A 63-year old female asked:
I had a CT of head and neck with contrast. I was pushed under CT scan. Tech said would be about three minutes but I was under it for 20 minutes.They inserted contrast and was out.Is this normal?Could they have left radiation on by error? Why so long?
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A 24-year old female asked:
I'm having a lot of head pressure and neck pain. I've gone to physical therapy and he said I had a lot of swelling in my neck. What does this mean?
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A 31-year old female asked:
What is the radiation difference between a dental head and neck icat 3D come beam and a regular cat scan? How does it compare to regular dental X-rays
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A 60-year old female asked:
Radiation Head & Neck ended 4 mo ago thyroid TSH now 5.02 Levothyroxine 50mcg 2wks. Hair still falling. How long before hair stops falling out?
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A 30-year old female asked:
30-year-old female - 1 head CT as an adolescent, 1 neck CT recently. So scared that the radiation from these 2 scans will cause cancer. Please advise?
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A 71-year old male asked:
Have chronic pain in back of neck and up and over the head ..both sides and forehead . scalp can be tender .. been 1 1/2 years ... Have tried phys. therapy with only temp. minor relief .. Am I doomed with this pain forever I am so frustrated .I am 72?
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A 25-year old female asked:
When I bend my head forward I get dizzy or side to side MRI was fine, could it be blood vessels? I start p.t. for vesbular therapy on neck tomorrow.
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A 34-year old female asked:
How much radiation would be involved in a 4d cta of my head and neck? Cancer risk, hair loss?
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A female asked:
I am post head and neck surgery and radiation for SCC of my upper jaw and palate. My CT shows Otomastoid opacification on that side. How is that treat?
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