OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2014 Posts: 86 | Hi everyone,
Thank you all for your help. The current update is my brother will be doing his surgery on 8/11/14 at karmanos cancer center. My brother might even be cancer free right now but the doctor wants better margins. The doctor says he wants to take precautjons so the cancer will not reoccur. Two doctors will be doing the surgery one will cut the cancer out and the other will do the construction part. He will be getting a modified neck dissection, a skin graft from his thigh and forearm to reform his tongue as a free flap. He will be in ICU for two days. He will be jn the hospital for 10 days. He will have a feeding tube, IV and trach. Does any one have any suggestions? Please wish us luck on all of this.
22 YO Brother Dx 6/17/14 w. SCC R Lateral tongue
CT scan clear LN 6/20/14
HPV-, non-smoker
R tongue, right hemiglossectomy Surgery 6/24/14
(Not reoccurrence but went to NCCC instead
R neck dissection, tracheostomy, radial free flap, R tongue dissection surg 8/11/14
PT1N2B.3 positive lymph nodes out of 13
Extranodal extension present
9-15-14 IMRT (35x) & Cisplatin (2x) begun
10-21-14 peg in. 10-31-14 1 round of carboplatin
11-4-14 IMRT rx comp
3-27-15 Recurrent tumor in lymph node, L neck diss.
10-29-15 brother passed away, 23 yrs old
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