You can have your friend call me directly. As you have read here, base of tongue cancers are usually HPV16 positive, and there is clinical evidence which is peer reviewed that even stage 4 patients have a survival advantage over those that come to the disease for other reasons. Either this doc is behind the curve on knowledge, or she was bracing him for a tough fight. Either way she clearly did a poor job of things.

Please do not post your email address and phone on the forum openly. The email can bee accessed in your profile which "bad people" and search engines do not get into. The phone number posted in the open forums, might end up in the hands of some call list selling you aluminum siding or who knows what. Late afternoons are the best time to call me even on the weekends. I spend some of every weekend and holiday talking to patients, so it is by choice not a burden to help out.

When you contact me include your phone number and email in that contact (sorry there are just too many to keep them in my memory or on scraps of paper), with your friends name etc. so I can put that together with the incoming call. For now I am going to take your number off the post for your protection. My email is in my profile.