| Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | The biopsy is the gold standard for cancer Dx and no it won't spread your cancer to get one. Your mother is not giving you information based on science. They're really no big deal.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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