I can certainly understand the fear, Michael, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you that that's all it is at this point. I had a similar fear right before my chemo/rad treatment started and actually I wodnered the same thing you did--wouldn't the CT they do for the radiation mapping show somehting like that and wouldn't someone say something, if something like that was there. I ended up assuming they would, and never asked for any special checkup then, but maybe I was wrong. Did you ever ask that and get an answer?

SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"