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Hi. My friend has oc cancer, diagnosed in may this year. (T3N2Mx) She has a NG feeding tube since end if may as she couldn’t swallow anything at all and has had 1 cycle of flot chemo which unfortunately gave her a heart attack so chemo changed to carboplatin and Paclitaxel, which she has had 2 cycles of. Consultant keeps asking if she can swallow anything now, but as yet she can’t. Has anybody else had this type of chemo and it not improved the swallowing??

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Not much help I'm afraid but I wonder if the NG tube is irritatating the throat /making it inflamed and adding to swallowing problems ?

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