Hi all, I went to my appointmetnt with the ENT. Her prognoses was postitive she seems to belive that current staging is T1N0M0. Her recomendation is surgery to remove the lump/cancer and removal of the lymph nodes on the left side of my neck.She feels confident that the cancer has not spread to the nodes. So my treatment plan at this time is just surgery. I should be back to work in about 3 weeks or so, unless the node biopsy comes back positive. I will be sticking around here if you all don't mind, as I am sure that this is going to be a very difficult time of my life and although I am more confident today as to the outcome, it will be a long time before I can rest easy. Thank you for all your input, if you don't feel the decision is to hasty I will certainly listen to suggestions.

Thanks


Wendy
46yrs@ DX 9/16/09 T1N0 SCC of leftlat tongue, poorly differentiated.Partial glosectomy 10/01/09 & 10/16/09 & 11/10/09 60-70% tongue removed, Radical fff, 38 nodes-clear, no rads/chemo. 3 petscans-clear