Do you still have your voice box? If you want to keep it, I suggest you quit smoking YESTERDAY. I tried smoking 1 cig a day about 6 months after radiation and 4 years later wound up with a cancer of the larynx. Even though STAGE I with no mets and very tiny, wound up as a total laryngectomee due to location on larynx.

Also, have you had a CT scan? Did they scope you? My tumor was hiding in a fold and until it had grown some, it would have only been able to be seen under anesthesia. I had a voice change and occasional loss of voice in the 5 months before they found the tumor. I had no swelling and the way I found mine was a minor pain when I swallowed a large vitamin.

Hopefully you are not experiencing a reoccurrenc, but I would make certain that I was being treated at a NCIC center and someone was watching this carefully. Voice changes are one of the few warning signs of oral cancer.

Take care of yourself and quit smoking now before it is too late. Take it from who didn't.

Eileen