I also am in the DC area, and Mike and I began posting here around the same time as he and my husband were diagnosed within weeks of one another (and saw one of the same doctors in northern Virginia). After the excisional biopsy that totally removed the leukoplakia (where it was identified as SCC in situ), my husband saw a cancer specialist at Hopkins who said no further treatment was necessary at that time. Had my husband needed radiation, he would have gone through a similar decision process as Mike, so I kept his blog tucked away in my mind.