Hi Don. Thanks for the comments; you are thinking straight. The last biopsy was Oct.25 and the small town local lab apparently said OK. I guess my MD wasn't satisfied with that answer, in light of having had the same answer in the spring. I gather he pushed to get the samples to the proper cancer screening people. That is why he called on Nov. 14 to say things were going to accelerate. I saw the oncologists in PG on Wed. Nov.20. They only had my CT and MRI, done the previous day, so probably didn't want to say too much. PET on Dec 2/2013.

Ja 2013 tongue, red sore spot, r/r edge + white strip underneath, no pain
Al Bx on spot, strip, and vocal cords, lab rep benign
Oc 24 Surgeon follow-up, larger Bx req'd
Oc 25 Bx bits to Vanc. Cancer lab
No 14 MD said more ca investig'n req'd
No 19 Prince George CC, MRI & CT
No 20 PGCC Oncol says cancer
De 2 Vancouver Cancer Centre, PET/CT
De 31 VGH partial glossX + ex spot on vocal cords