OP  "OCF Canuck, across the pond" Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 153 | Hi Christine,
Good points. I need to clarify. My friend's doctor is in fact a specialist in the field of head and neck cancer in San Francisco, California, and based her comments after viewing my latest CT-scan. But you are correct in that this doctor has never seen me in person. And of course there is a very real possibility for miscommunication from my friend. Point taken.
The biopsy will be an ultra-sound-guided needle biopsy of the swelling in my neck, presumed to be my lymph node (presuming the ultra-sound "sees" a target).
47 yr old male non-smoker, social drinker, fit. Jan'10, Stg3 rt tonsil+rt neck SCC, HPV+, rad+chmo Vancouver Cda. 2yr clear Apr'12 London UK. Apr'13 mets recur to lymph btw left lung & aorta, 3x Cisplatin+5FUchemo+20 rad, was all clear but 6-mo PET-CT shows mets to pleura around left lung, participating in St 1 trial of GDC-0980. GDC lost effect and ended July'14, bad atrial fibrillation requiring hospitalisation, start more standard chemo 10 Sep 2014.
Sadly has passed away, notified Jan 2015.
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