[quote=Brian Hill]Please understand this: I am not insinuating he is wrong. Almost every patient that I talk to or actually see, has something weird about the area in which they had their original cancer, and that does not equal RETURN of disease. But I would not live with a feeling of uncertainty if it can be put to bed through a relatively simple process - that is what I am suggesting. We all do that emotional dance with this thing, mostly for protracted post treatment periods of time, and every time I get some weird bump, roughness, discoloration, in my mouth (which is frequently) I simultaneously get a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. It stays around in my gut, and my psyche until it resolves on its own, or one of my reviewing docs gives me a black and white clinical answer. [/quote]

I gotcha. I'm really not that worried, don't know why I'm not, but I'm not. PET is in the can, now I just wait to see my oncologist and I'll get his take on the "irritated area" at the back of my tongue. I will push for a biopsy from him. How do they biopsy that area? Before I had the needle biopsy on a node in my neck. Do they scrape, needle, cut???

Thanks guys,
George