Morgan,

If I were in your shoes I would go to a NIH Cancer Center. You can take all your records with you and the disks, they'll want to read the disks and will go from there. You can call yourself and make an appointment no need for a Doctor to refer you.

My late husband had Stage 4 Throat Cancer, 12 years ago. We didn't know anything about NIH Cancer Centers an ENT Surgeon and a Radiation Oncologist treated him, 18 months later he passed. It was the worse thing in my life to witness, I think to this day if we had known about Cancer Centers we would have been there in a flash.

The Cancer Centers have the lastest equipment and their speciality is only CANCER....I drive 2 1/2 hours every 6 months for my checkups, I wouldn't go any place else.

I understand you're in denial I was too. I thought this can't be happening first my husband then me. I would look at the lesion daily one day it was painful and red, the next day it looked like it was shrinking and little pain then it started to spread and quickly.

Listen to the people on the forum they know what they're talking about. Don't hesitate, step on it!!!!

Take care,
Connie


SCC. of the left lateral tongue, anterior two thirds, T1 possibly a T2.
Left partial glossectomy, left selective neck dissection 4/21/09. Nodes clean, No Rad, No Chemo.

CT Scan 9/11 clean, CT Scan 9/12 clean


Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. A+.

My hometown Lockport, NY.