Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | To my knowledge, they usually try to save the larynx if at all possible. I had already had radiation 4 years earlier, so I wasn't a candidate for rads. Rads is what would have been recommended for me.
You still haven't answered my question as to whether you are a candiate for a TEP. Did he mention it? Did they check your esophagus to see how well it vibrates?
I'm not familiar with paps and didn't have that complication. Glad you are getting a second opinion.
Take care, Eileen
---------------------- Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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