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This is gut-wrenching to read and my heart truly goes out to Jake and his family. My mother-in-law had this diagnosis and same course of treatments although she
by Multiplayer 3y ago
This is gut-wrenching to read and my heart truly goes out to Jake and his family.
My mother-in-law had this diagnosis and same course of treatments although she was able to keep half her tongue before the cancer eventually returned with a vengeance. Only now reading these visceral, gripping diaries do I realize how poorly I understood her physical and emotional experience.
I am very, very hopeful that the coming generations of AI enhanced research will accelerate us quickly out of these almost unbelievably brutal treatments and into therapies that work non-destructively.
- jseliger 3y agoIt's very hard, and, yes, the treatments we're collectively using are still primitive. FWIW it looks like I'm in a relatively promising clinical trial, and the primary treatment is likely to be less hard than surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, but recurrent / metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (RN HNSCC) kills. It's conceivable but unlikely I'll somehow survive, but my understanding is that most people in the field think that it'll take some combination of treatments to make any substantial progress.