Supporting Member (50+ posts) Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 81 Likes: 2 | I want to reinforce what Christine said about going to a comprehensive cancer center. You will have access not only to medical and radiation oncologists but surgeons, nutritionists, and swallowing/speech pathologists.
Those folks work ONLY on head and neck cancers; it makes all the difference in the world.
Keep fighting friends!
Me -- currently 53 years old SCC diagnosed 3/7/2017 at age 48 Staging SCC HPV+ T0,N1 primary unknown PET 3/16, no activity, biopsies 3/23 benign TORS surgery identified 2mm tumor in BOT (vallecula) Cancer restaged T1, N2, M0 Begin 30 sessions of radiation (60 Gy) 6/13 Completed radiation 7/24/2017 1st MRI clear 10/23/2017!! 2nd MRI clear 10/17/2018! |