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Supportive Care in Cancer
Published in: Supportive Care in Cancer 4/2011

01-04-2011 | Letter to the Editor

Am I cured from cancer? A physician's personal experience

Author: Itzhak Brook

Published in: Supportive Care in Cancer | Issue 4/2011

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Five years ago I was diagnosed with hypopharyngeal carcinoma. Yet even after the cancer had been successfully treated by local excision and radiation, it was difficult to completely free myself from the apprehension that the disease would return. This fear actually materialized when I had a local recurrence 20 months later which required a total laryngectomy. Even though I had been examined once a month and had periodic diagnostic PET and CT scans, all of these failed to detect the recurrence until the tumor was large enough to be detected by endoscopy. …
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Title
Am I cured from cancer? A physician's personal experience
Author
Itzhak Brook
Publication date
01-04-2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Supportive Care in Cancer / Issue 4/2011
Print ISSN: 0941-4355
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7339
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-011-1091-2

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