Well, I met with my ENT yesterday and he was very glum. Looks like I have mets to the lungs. Left side shadow, right side clearly defined at15mm. Did biopsy on neck but let me know that scan shows a lot of involvement (tissue & nodes).

He didn't do this over the phone last week just said enlarged node in neck. I assume he doesn�t give this type of news over the phone. We are going to hold out hope that this is an infection but he was very clear that this does not look like that.Will get pathology back Friday.

Treatment options are limited to about zero here. He said that if it is cancer, it's in the blood stream and as soon as we surgically removed it from one place, we'll be planning another surgery.

Said I may have a year.


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