 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 559 Likes: 1 | Hi JK - to answer your question, yes, it's pretty normal to be working only with an ENT first. Once the cancer diagnosis has been made, then the oncologist's (medical and radiation) get called in as well as a surgeon (if one is needed). As I understand the process, that's the way it flows. My hospital (not a CCC) used the doctor team approach and that's the way they did it.
take care
Tony
Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)
09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0.
11/13 start rads, no chemo
12/13 taste gone, dry mouth,
02/14 hair slowly returning
05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps.
01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter.
12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good
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