Cheryl --

That is the clearest explanation I have seen in my three years here of why it is so important to be evaluated at a comprehensive cancer center, where head and neck cancers are the only thing the doctors see and treatment determinations are made collaboratively by a team of medical personnel from a variety of specialties.

Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.