Hello everyone I need your help. My little brother who is 22 years old was just diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, moderately poorly differentiated. I am really scared. He had a sore on his left tongue for about 2 months and we thought it was just a kinker sore and now we got the results back and we are scared. Qe are taking him to a specialist tomorrow. Can you give me insight? Is his survival rate only 5 years? I keep reading that it is 5 years and im so scared.
Thank you for your help,
AK

22 YO Brother Dx 6/17/14 w. SCC R Lateral tongue
CT scan clear LN 6/20/14
HPV-, non-smoker
R tongue, right hemiglossectomy Surgery 6/24/14
(Not reoccurrence but went to NCCC instead
R neck dissection, tracheostomy, radial free flap, R tongue dissection surg 8/11/14
PT1N2B.3 positive lymph nodes out of 13
Extranodal extension present
9-15-14 IMRT (35x) & Cisplatin (2x) begun
10-21-14 peg in. 10-31-14 1 round of carboplatin
11-4-14 IMRT rx comp
3-27-15 Recurrent tumor in lymph node, L neck diss.
10-29-15 brother passed away, 23 yrs old