Hi;

I wish I had run into this group a few months ago. I am now done with treatments. I had SCC of the tonsil, spent a year fighting an ear ache that the doctor thought was an allergy. I felt something hitting my tongue one day, looked and saw the papilla of my tonsil were swollen enough to hit my tongue.
I kept trying to convince the doctors that I had something else, but a biopsy showed cancer.
The tumor was golf ball sized, lymph nodes under my jaw and behind my carotids were all involved.
35 radiation, 7 carboplatin treatments and it seems to be gone.
I did not get the PEG, which forced me to keep eating. I lost 25 lbs, but kept going OK.
I feel(and my doctors agree) that I went through treatment quite well. I'm just hoping I can get to where I can eat hot peppers again.

Flip