 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Well, the choice is yours -- Stay home, worry about it, put your wife and family through worrying about it and if it is cancer, let it get a good head start to spread throughout your body OR go to Doc, get a biopsy, find out and deal with it if needed -- Seems obvious to me...
By the way, it's NOT cancer until the biopsy comes back and says it is -- Lots of things cause white spots in the mouth that aren't cancer.
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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