The vast majority of members of the American Academy of Otolaryngology are not head and neck surgeons with the added specialty in concology regardless of the number of years of training. I was treated by one for my surgery portion of my process, so I have no issue with them, you just have to get to one that has the additional training. I think that most people do not understand that there are various levels of training and skills within the otolaryngology community.

I don't think that oral surgeons should be cancer treatment people either. But the one that this poster saw did what he was supposed to do as I said. He got a finite answer without watching and waiting, that now needs to be explored by people further up the food chain. No one suggested that he treat cancer. I suggested that if this was dysplasia, that they routinely take that off all the time.

I also stated clearly that were it me that I wouldn't wait for this to become something else but get rid of it now while it is dysplasia. We have had too many people be "followed" through their dysplasia right into its development into cancer. How do you think we dropped the death rate in cervical cancer by 71% in 10 years? Women screened by their GYN's and found to have precancerous dysplasia, had it removed as such, and it never had the chance to develop into something greater. They did this without ever seeing an oncology specialist.