Re: Some advice please


<joetherep@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Steph wrote:
>> <concerned1501@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1119148927.695465.255720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I posted the following to sci.med a short
>> > time back and got no reply...
>> >
>> > Hello
>> >
>> >
>> > A couple of questions.
>> >
>> >
>> > I had a case of bronchitis and was given a script
>> > for Zithromax, 5 days.I have had a mild sore throat with
>> > fairly bad ear pain ever since.
>> >
>> >
>> > A side effect of the anti-biotic? Or something
>> > worst? I cannot see a Dr. for sometime,so any advice
>> > or help would be most welcome.I am somewhat worried.
>> >
>> >
>> > Please respond to the group.
>> >
>> >
>> > I am a 47 year old male
>> > Heavy smoker
>> > My chest Xrays came back fine.
>> >
>> > My concern is of course throat cancer.
>> > Seems from my searching the symptoms,
>> > could very well point to that.
>> >
>> > But from what I have found out is that throat
>> > cancer, would be very rare in my age group.
>> > (less than 500 cases in my country, Canada ages
>> > 45-50 in 10 years)
>> >
>> > As I pointed out I cannot visit a Dr.
>> > for sometime. So if throat cancer is that rare,
>> > What else could be causing my symptoms?...trouble
>> > swallowing..slight sore throat..on and off ear pain.
>> >
>> > The fact that I was taking a anti-biotic and it has
>> > not got better has me worried.
>> >
>> > Please post replies to the group.
>> >
>> > Thank You
>> >
>>
>> Any inflammation in the larynx, if severe enough, can give ear pain.
>> I've got lots of patients in my head and neck cancer practice of your age
>> with larynx cancer. Some younger. Thos e stats are incorrect
>
> The poster is correct. So says Health Canada.
>
>>>From the years 1992-2001 there were 482 cases of larynx cancer
> in males 45-50 years old in Canada.
>
> You must have an EXTREMELY busy practice to have *lots*
> of larynx cancer patients in your practice,that are his age
> and younger....Considering it is, as the poster stated,
> a rare cancer in his age group.
>
> In a country of 30 million people, 482 cases in 10
> years is not only rare it is SUPER DUPER RARE :)
>
> BTW where is it you practice? New York City?
> Los Angeles? Must be a major center to have
> that many young larynx cancer patients.
>

I see most larynx cancers on Vancouver Island, and have done for the past 12
years. I collect a couple of youngsters each year, treat them, cure most of
them and then follow them. It adds up..
The Stats Canada figures are only as good as the provincial cancer
registries, and some aren't so good........


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