Davidcpa, it "didn't look right" on a post-tx pet scan. The tech that read the scan saw it and my ENT didn't. They huddled up over the scan and eventually told me they don't like using the phrase "it's probably nothing" with cancer patients. Didn't know it was radiation damage til they got it out of my neck.

Other than the initial biopsy, the only knife I saw.


Dx March 2011 via FNA (49 yrs old)
SCC BoT
HPV+ exact strain unknown
Stage IVa T3N2cM0
Cisplatin x 3, IMRT x 40 (7267 cGy)
One node removed post-treatment (rad dmg)
Clean PET 10/28/11
Swallow therapy