Okey..We been to Drs today..

Their interpretation of the PET is: "Per PET, there was no cancer ditected in pre or post treatment PET. They did the biopsy (pre-treatment) cause there was lesion in soft palate. Now there is no lesion now so no biopsy needed; they would keep monitoring it.
For Lymph nodes : they would remove lymph node with 2 suv, and do post treatment biopsy. if positive they would remove other lymph nodes in a seperate surgery."

We did press for Biopsy but they were of the opinion that we dont need biopsy of soft palate right now and lymph nod biopsy is easier post removal.

:)we feel very relived as Cancer seems gone from soft palate.

Please let us know, if you have any inputs before we go for surgery or have inputs on Drs Opinion.

DX: SCC of Ca Palate 9/12, Biopsy and MRI 9/12
PET 9/12 : SCC of soft palate, 2 lymph nodes with mild SUV.
TX: Cispaltin weekly for 6 weeks, RT: 33 days 9/12 to 10/12.
PET 1/13: 2 residual lymph nodes.02/06/13 MRND,0/21 metastatic,some nodes were consistent with TB. AKT initiated