Just returned home from week at Vanderbilt after Danny fell on bad leg & broke his hip. They did a scan before surgery & found a golf size tumor in the ball & joint of hip & another small one. They did biopsy & said it is carcinoma from oral cancer. They did a hip replacement which removed that tumor & the other.
They followed with a PET scan which showed "areas of great concern" in vertebrae, ribs, lung. We were then referred back to our original ENT oncologist & rad oncologist. I did post the number of chemo treatments wrong. He was scheduled for 16 (9 + 7 during rads) but missed 1 due to blood counts. These 2 were weekly infusions of Carbo + Taxol. He also had 35 aggresive daily rads.
We will see rad oncologist next Wed then ENT oncologist on the 28th. We ask for everyone's prayers. Right now we are focusing only on the hip recovery. They did say he fell & broke his hip, not that the hip broke & then he fell.