I am a survivor of head/neck cancer, SCC to be precise, diagnosed at end of 08/05, surgery in October of same year, a 15-hour job to replace part of tongue with stuff from wrist (including nerves) along with a radical neck disection, followed by chemo (cisplatin) and radiation.

Subsequently, I was diagnosed with lung cancer, June of '07. They said I had '10 months to live', but were wrong: they misdiagnosed most of the stuff in my neck (and face) as cancer, when it was really an infection. The end result was a lobectomy, but that was better than the alternative.

I am now NED (No Evidence of Disease). I am a big contributor at CSN, but new to this one.

Joe