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Joined: May 2013 Posts: 188 Likes: 4 | Get a CT scan to go with the ultrasound and see the ENT. He should do the fine needle biopsy on your neck. With these three items and his expertise you should get some answers. The neck growth, ear pain are familiar symptoms in my case. I went through same frustrations and could have been treated a year earlier. You have to drive the car if you know what I mean.
Age 55 HPV 16+ SCC, BOT 050613 Stage IV
great team at OSU
Tx 6 weeks of rad started June 3
8 weeks of chemo started May 28
RTOG Phase III trial Cetuximab group.
Treatment completed 7/16/2013
PET Scan completed 10/08/13
Results discussed 10/11/13
NED - Free but am I
Next part of the journey?
1year PET 10/24/14 NED
Good reports now 10 years out.
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