In my humble opinion, someone needs to beat your first doctor upside his head with a big stick......then hug and thank your oncologist. How dare the first doctor say treatment isn't worth it?? How does he know the node in the chest is cancer?? Only a biopsy can show that. Stay away from this doctor is my first advice. Get to a CCC is my second. Listen to all the late stage survivors on here (myself included) is my third.
Take care,
Minnie

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.