Susan,

Being a smoker my ENT wanted the full workup on the lungs. He said that the cancer could go to the lungs but generally in much, much more advanced cases.

Also, the cancer that has moved to his nodes is Squamous Cell Cancer (SCC). If it went anywhere else in the body it would still be SCC. So if it showed up in the liver, it�s not liver cancer, or in the brain, it would not be brain cancer, it�s SCC in the liver or SCC in the brain.

I say this because lung cancer is not SCC and neither is brain cancer. Lance Armstrong dealt with testicular cancer that spread to many other organs, but it was always testicular cancer.

Kelly

Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR