 Assistant Admin Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 7 | Welcome to the forum. I’m glad you have quit smoking and hopefully that’s the last time you’ll have to quit.
Please understand that we are a group of patients and caregivers. We have lived through the experience of having oral cancer but do not have any medical training. We are not able to diagnose and anyway, you won’t want us to as it will be really irresponsible of us.
The best course of action for now is to follow your doctors’ advice if your next orthodontist appointment is not too far off. Alternatively, you may consider speaking to your GP and asking him/her for a referral to an ENT who specializes in oral cancer. Of course, if things change while you’re waiting, you should go straight back to your doctors — as they have advised you to.
Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
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