About treatment recommendations: FYI, every year the National Comprehensive Cancer Network -- an alliance of the country's leading cancer centers -- publishes Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. These are the "best practices" treatment recommendations based on input from the 21 cancer centers that are part of NCCN (Sloan is one).

The 2009 guidelines for head and neck cancers are available here, on the main part of the OCF site.

Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.