Hi David, I was just waiting until Friday to add the signature line.

They said that it's a T2 tumor and that it spread to the nodes on the same side. That was confirmed by biopsy. The nodes on that side were not large. There is a very small lump on the other side. It didn't show on the MRI, "something showed" on the PET. They didn't think it crossed the midline and that the lump might be malignant or might be a cyst.

The MD from Sloan also said it was on the borderline of oral and base. Because of the nodes they decided to treat it as base. I thought that was a bit odd.

Because of the location and size he felt radiation would do it. Of course, he said surgery was an option ,if needed but he didn't see that as the case as of now.

I wanted to ask a bit more about the oral/base thing. At the time of the visit there was some question if it was SCC or not(it is) and we got caught up in that. Of course, more questions came to mind on the ride home.

We see the radiologist Friday, the oncologist next week Thursday. Feels a bit slow moving to me but when I asked the scheduling person they said the MD alerts them if it needs to "move faster" and didn't in our case. They also said they don't let it go any longer than 6 weeks from date of biopsy to treatment. We are still in that time period.