 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Mary Jo,
and welcome to the site. I had a T3N0M0 myself and underwent almost the same treatment protocol (just rad & chemo). The difference was I had only 2 doses of Cisplatin spaced 3 weeks apart. It took about a month for all of my diagnostics and IMRT software programming also. I asked the doctor about the time delay once and she told me that if the cancer appeared more dangerous they would have moved even faster. Normally it takes a couple of months to get in the cue for an MRI and several months for a PET scan (for non cancer pts). You are already on the fast track believe it or not.
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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