 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | "RO" is an abbreviation for Radiation Oncologist.
If it were me, I would place most of my faith in the CCC. Once again they have the most experience. At stage 1-2 a "door number 1" - "door number 2" choice. Once again, not trying to scare you but, tongue cancers can be more aggressive. Hopefully you'll be armed with all of the good questions by the time you go to Dana Farber.
I had to choose between a 14 hour surgery and radiation or Chemo and radiation. Statistically, the outcome was actually a little higher with the latter protocol. With my late staging, radiation wasn't an option.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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