Donna,
You and your hubby are in my prayers...question for you. My husband is 4 months post surgery for SCC tongue. Modified neck dissection both sides were negative. He developed a swollen gland same side about 1 and a half weeks ago. His oral surgeon gave him antibiotics for what he thought was an infection. Yesterday, we went to the University of MD for another disease Dan has (PVL) for a follow up. We asked this doc to take a look at Dan's newest CATscan and he said without hesitation that it was cancer and needed to come out now! What a shocker and I know you have been there. My question is I have read where some people just have radiation and some have radical neck dissection and radiation. Do you know why they do one versus why they do the other.

Brian - maybe you have insight into this? We are trying to get a quick PET scan, meet with the oral surgeon tomorrow and hopefully get referred to John Hopkins. The U of MD surgeon will be out of the country for 3 weeks.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Our oral surgeon told us last week that this was most likely an infection and would be highly unlikely to be cancer. How can two docs look at the same CT scan and have such differing opinions?

Thanks,
Debbie