Well, I'm glad I found this forum. It has a great deal of reality and perhaps some hope. Prior to the holidays, I had a neck biopsy for a big lump that only my husband noticed. Unfortunately, the diagnosed this Monday was for squamous cell carcinoma. Since this is Wednesday and I was referred on to a medical team in Denver, I've thus been staged at Tx N3 Mx. From what they tell me the "x" numbers will be filled in after my scope surgery in mid month so it can be further staged, but it is Stage IV at this time. They just need to get the scans and the exploratory done. Since I've already been losing weight, I'll have a PEG tube put in immediately.

Lets just said I'm really REALLY scared.

thanks for being here

Jen