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Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 81 Likes: 2 | I would most definitely get a second opinion. My ENT was convinced that I had a second branchial cleft cyst and wanted to postpone surgery to the end of this year - instead I had surgery 3/6 and they discovered my "cyst" was SCC in a cystic lymph node. I don't like to consider what could happened if I had waited.
Ear pain was my first sign; I know that is anecdotal but wanted to share it.
Wishing you the best of luck,
Stef
Keep fighting friends!
Me -- currently 53 years old
SCC diagnosed 3/7/2017 at age 48
Staging SCC HPV+ T0,N1 primary unknown
PET 3/16, no activity, biopsies 3/23 benign
TORS surgery identified 2mm tumor in BOT (vallecula)
Cancer restaged T1, N2, M0
Begin 30 sessions of radiation (60 Gy) 6/13
Completed radiation 7/24/2017
1st MRI clear 10/23/2017!!
2nd MRI clear 10/17/2018!
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