Good to see this thread still helps people. After my recent MRI concluded: "some enhancement along left posterior tongue base could reflect tumor" but the tumor board of radiation oconologists plus the ENT surgeon who looked at the actual MRI pictures all concluded that not a thing was out of the ordinary and that the "enhancement" was what they routinely see after salvage surgery like I had, I have to vent again
Don't you just hate it when they have residents or phone it in radiologists prepare a "report" on your PETscan, MRI or CT that gets discounted by your regular doctors but still worries you since they say it could be the cancer again?


65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

Passed away 4-29-13