Walknlite,

She has been referred to Dr. Mark Olsen a medical oncologist with Cancer Care Associates at the Natalie Warren Cancer Center and Dr. Stewart Charles radiation oncologist with Therapudic Radiology at St Francis.

We are looking for an ENT with more experience in SCC of the head and neck but I am feeling that we need to go to a Comprehensive Cancer Center to get the experienced group we need to plan an attack on this diagnosis. After talking to the people in this forum. All we have is the node biopsy pathology report of SCC and a PET scan results at this point we need confirmation of where the primary cancer is located.

Thank you for the input.

Why did you only have surgery? Is radiation and chemo not effective if you have N0 and M0 staging? Or is it a matter of primary tumor size? Sorry I am still learning.

Regards,
Cheryl aka Brick

Right Inferior Tonsil T2 N2b M0
MD Anderson appointment 09/03/2009 - H&N surgeon Dr. Sturgis 09/10/09 Plan - Cetuximab Chemo start 09/21 and 6.5 weeks of radiation starting 09/28