Linroth

I found a lump in my left neck while shaving one day and did the typical guy thing and didn't tell my wife. No pain and I thought they would just go away. I was never sick a day in my life. Avid bikest-100 miles per week at 22mph avg & high impact aerobics instructor. Well afetr 2 weeks and no change I told my wife and all h*#l broke loose. I went to 3 docs before my first cancer doc, a surgical ENT. He did a needle biopsy which came back as poorly dif SCC. He did a PET which both nodes (there was actually 2 not 1 as I felt) lit up but not much. I was told that there is a scale of 1 to 25 with 25 being the highest metabolic activity and the more activity the greater the chance of cancer. They don't consider anything below 4 to be cancer. My nodes came back as 3.9. No other site lit up. He wanted to do a Radical. I went to #2 cancer doc, a Medical Oncologist. He wanted to take to 2 nodes out only. I went to Moffitt Cancer Inst and they said no surgery necessary. All 3 had said chemo and rad was necessary and I went with Moffitt. They also gave me the highest survival rate. We all hope we made the best decision base upon our limited knowledge and trust in theirs.