Hi Katie,

You seem like you had a very similar cancer to my wife who is currently in her last week of treatment.

Ask your doctors if there was any Perineural Invasion or Extracapsular Extension in the lymph nodes.

If one of the two mentioned above does exist, you may want to get a second opinion and ask for chemoradiotherapy as lymph node involvement with any of these two traits warrants aggressive treatment.

Hope that helps and I wish you all the best on your journey to becoming cancer free (if not already)!


6/8/12: Wife 33y/o with no risk dx with Stage IVa SCC L of Tongue(T4aN2bM0)
3/9/12: Induced birth @ 36 weeks - Baby Hunter!
11/9/12: OP - 3/4 Partial Gloss, Radical ND & Tongue Rec.
24/10/12: 33xRad + 7xChemo
7/12/12: Tx complete
21/3/13 & 21/6/13: NED
24/7/13: SCC in Lungs - OP: Lobectomy (VATS)
29/1/14 passed away