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Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 | I'm so glad you got the biopsy! And don't be too scared about it taking that long before you got the biopsy. I first noticed my sore around Christmas, off and on, but who pays attention to stuff around the holidays? I finally talked to a doctor around February, who said we'd keep an eye on it ... then got referred to ENT who said we'd keep an eye on it ... then finally had surgery to remove it so it could heal fresh (which turned out to be the biopsy), which was all the way in May. And it still wasn't too bad after all. (Ignore my signature ... that was the later recurrence, most of it.)
Surgery 5/31/13
Tongue lesion, right side
SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated
T1N0 based on biopsy and scan
Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes
12/2/13 follow-up with concerns
12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned
1/8/14 Port installed
PEG installed
Chemo and rads
2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads
March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June
2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia
Fall 2017: HBOT
Jan 18: oral surgery
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