Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 138 | I am assuming the tumor under my tongue is the primary cancer. I had a PET scan and no other cancer showed up anywhere in my body. But that tumor spread to my lymph nodes and is apparently very aggressive now. I feel like if I had never had that tumor removed it might have stayed dormant for years. I did smoke, but I quit 10 years ago.
BOT-SCC Partial glossectomy 7/16/09. Stage IV, Rt ND 10/2/09. Teeth out 11/5/09. Port/peg in, 11/20/09. 7 wks rad & chemo, end 1/22/10 lung, colon biopsies 1/9/11 - both cancer colon resect surg 1/10/11 Folfox + Avastin - discontinued 6/11 lung surgery 3/13/12, 5/1/12 mets to liver and bones passed away 9/4/13
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