|   Platinum Member (300+ posts) 
 Joined:  Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 |  I hate to argue, too, but I waited. Twice. And the first was cancer that grew in the interim, and now I have a recurrence. Like you, I have no risk factors or behaviors. Please, go get checked. Your health trumps your finals. Surely your teachers will understand.   Surgery 5/31/13
 Tongue lesion, right side
 SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated
 T1N0 based on biopsy and scan
 Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes
 12/2/13 follow-up with concerns
 12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned
 1/8/14 Port installed
 PEG installed
 Chemo and rads
 2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads
 March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June
 2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia
 Fall 2017: HBOT
 Jan 18: oral surgery
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