Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 | When my ENT did my two tongue surgeries, he removed pieces and sent them to pathology right away so he could be sure of margins. And with the first, we were not even thinking cancer. Thankfully he planned ahead. The samples were also frozen so other doctors could study them, which was handy during second opinions while planning our first treatment.
Yed, mine did come back and I am facing more treatment, but if he had not been quick to check and particular about margins, this could have gotten a whole lot worse very fast.
Good luck finding a better doctor!
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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