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Expert: - 7/7/2011


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Hi,

My mother has just been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, it is in her both sinus, into her right eye (of which she is now blind in and the lid is permanantly closed) very near her left optic nerve and spread back to near her brain stem, her oncologist has said there is nothing that can be done for her and possibly only has a couple of months to live, how on earth has it got to this state before anyone has picked up on it.

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No tumour of this size can exist without causing symptoms - in fact symptoms will appear LONG before any tumour reaches a state like this! But has your mother complained of such symptoms earlier? If so when and for what? Without knowing that I can not evaluate the situation. Unfortunately I have experience of patients that avoid going to doctors with symptoms that frighten them. And if they do not go nothing can or will be found.



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I`m a doctor of medicine and specialist in radiation therapy and medical oncology. I have a long time experience of these tumours.

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I'm a Doctor of Medicine and specialist in Medical Oncology and Radiation Therapy, educated and trained in Sweden. Now retired. Background in Radiation Therapy, Medical Oncology, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, Gynecological Oncology, Clinical Pathology, Clinical Cytology,Hematology and Internal Medicine. M.D. from the faculty of medicine, Royal Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Have also been an exchange student at the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem Israel. Former medical consultant, Swedish National Board of Radiation Protection. Former Police Surgeon and Medical Examiner, Stockholm Police Department. Former Chief Medical Officer, The Royal Guards, The Royal Horse Guards and the Royal Household Brigade, Royal Swedish Army Medical Corps. You can also reach me on: http://www.lifestylerescue.com/expert/health-fitness-advice/dr-claes-gustaf/128 . I have no restrictions on the number of questions there. I also answer questions about Oncology (General Cancer), General History, Military History, Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer.

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