The risk factors for both types of cancers are the same, so the connection is usually cause related, for instance smoking. Treatments for both also follow similar protocols. As to your questions, they at first will center around how advanced is the cancer, what types of additional tests should be done to determine if there are other, yet undiscovered locations of cancer, and what will the treatments entail, and who will determine that. There will be a lot to digest in these first meetings. Take a pad and pen and make notes as things are discussed. It is all so overwhelming at first that you may miss things, and your notes will help you in the following days.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.