Charm,

my tumor was just behind the area your recurrence is in. I know you had a similar treatment to mine three years ago, but they have made some advances. One of the things my doctor said whenever I would say that other institutions were unaware of these new developments was " I don't know why, we've been publishing our data for four years".

You might mention this to your team to see if they can gain any advantage from those reports. my ENT was Dr. Robert Ferris at UPMC. My RO was Dr. Dwight Heron. Dr. Heron was the guy who headed up the radiology aspect of these newer protocals.

Hope this helps


Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR