 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | My understanding is that unless the samples from your original biospy still exist, they can't test for it post treatment. Brian may have more up to date information.
This whole subject interests me greatly since I had a tonsil cancer and haven't smoked for many years (1976) or drank for over a decade.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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