Hi, My name is Vicki.
My husband was recently dx with StageIV base of tongue cancer, with mets to 3 lymph nodes. Age 60, prev smoker.
He previously had 3 neck biopsies, the earliest one done in October 2004. The most recent one in November 2006 came back positive which eventually led to them to finding the primary.
We are currently in the phase of meeting with oncologists to decide the treatment plan, which will more than likely me IMRT with concurrent chemo, and possibly brachytherapy following that.
He will probably be starting therapy in about 2 weeks.
No plan for surgery to remove tumor. It is small and not well seen on the MRI and had it not been for the PET Scan the surgeon said it may have gone undiagnosed. But because of the delay in diagnosis and the postive lymph nodes, it is very scary.