 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Jeff,
if you are fortunate in that the biopsy does indeed come back negative QUIT SMOKING NOW! Or inevitably you might be be joining our little club (as others have said - "the one that nobody wants to join" Danny Boy liked that one - he finally got to quit - he died, the rest of us are stuck in this purgatory). Tobacco products are implicated in about 80% of oral cancer cases. It's a tough wake up call.
I applaud your courage in stepping up and getting to the heart of it so quickly.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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