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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 130 | I like the answers even less now that I know them. They are just as I suspected. Cancer is in the right tonsilar, bot area. Only good news in the whole mess I think is the fact that is has not spread into the bone or anywhere else. I am looking at ten days to two weeks in the hospital. I did not ask the size of the tumor or the staging I will have the opportunity on Thursday. I have decided to do the surgery on Monday the 31st. and not put it off. Im looking at a tracheonomy, mandible dissection, pec. flap, and a partial glossectomy. I am to be prepared to be in ICU for 3-5 days. I will start HBO treatment in the hospital and finish those up as an out patient. I don't think I forgot anything.
40 yr old. Stage IV SCC found left tonsil. PET/CT shows cancer on base of tongue, floor of mouth, lymph nodes on both sides. HPV 16 pos. 6 weeks of cisplatin, 43 days of radiation. 73gy on each side.
ND March 2, 2009
reoccurance dx'd Aug 19, 2009
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