Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Im very sorry to read you are still not diagnosed after several months. As I advised in my original post to your thread... only thru a biopsy will you know for certain exactly what you have. Oral cancer does NOT show up in a blood test. It may not even show in a CT scan as that takes pictures. If I remember correctly, anything smaller than about the size of a grain of rice wont be visible. I know it sounds very small but if you think about how cancer starts as a microscopic cell, a grain of rice is pretty big. Hopefully your doctors will get to the bottom of your issues.
Try not getting too far ahead of yourself. The "what if" thinking will only make you feel worse and think negatively. At this point you havent been diagnosed with anything that could endanger your ability to speak or work. Take it one step at a time and hopefully you will find out soon whats going on.
Best wishes! ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive |