My mom was diagnosed with tonsil cancer in year 2000. I wanted to write this article after having a friend who also contracted tonsil cancer in her late 20s and she also had to dealt with suppressing a lot of injustices in her life. But she has to toughen on just to survive and feed her family. Both of them is no longer associated with the situation that I felt triggered their condition and have recovered.
Talking about nasty people, my mom had her share of meeting nasty people all through her life. Throughout her career as a staff nurse at a government hospital, my mother had to work at busy second or third class wards where there is huge shortage of headcount. After my grandaunt passed away when I was [...]
This is a 3 part article: A: My mom’s personal experience with tonsil cancer B: Radiotherapy side effects on tonsil and other oral cancers- Part 1 C: Radiotherapy side effects on tonsil and other oral cancers- Part 2 <– current article The importance of nutrition When my mom was first diagnosed and throughout, we have [...]
This is a 3 part article: A: My mom’s personal experience with tonsil cancer B: Radiotherapy side effects on tonsil and other oral cancers- Part 1 <– you are reading this article C: Radiotherapy side effects on tonsil and other oral cancers- Part 2 After my mom had her operation, the surgically removed tonsil and [...]
The following is written from my own mom’s personal experience in dealing with tonsil cancer. Her adaptive methods has worked for her- but it may not work for everyone. I decided to share the story here when I begin to hear more people whose loved ones struggled with the after effects of radiotherapy from tonsil or [...]
