hi every we're getting ready for the consultation with a ENT soon. While everybody looks alot more relax from the CT scan results. I am still very worry.

Can the CT scan show if the virus has spread to the lymph nodes? if not what shows it?

Im a bit confuse from the report from the CT scan. it reads

"there is no mass in the floor of mouth, oral cavity, tongue base, oropharnyx, or hypopharynx. The laryngeal structures are within normal limits. The parotid and submandibular glads are normal in size and enhancement"
"No evidence for cervical lymphdenopathy by CT size criteria."
"The thyroid glad is unremarkable"
"The paranasal sinuses and mastoids ar eclear"
"Visualized portions of the brain parenchyma and orbits are unremarkable"
"No prevertebral masses are seen. The vascular structures enhance normally."
"The osseous structures are unremarkable with exception of degenerative disc disease in the cervical spine particularly at C6-7"
"There is no pulmonary nodule or mass in the visualized lung apices."

I am a bit confused because the first sentence says, "there is no mass in the floor of mouth, oral cavity, tongue base, oropharnyx, or hypoparynx", doesnt that pretty much say she doesnt have it?

Please let me know what you guys think.


mom with tongue cancer