I'm new to all of this. My husband (age 48) was recently (5/17/2007) diagnosed with Base of Tongue SCC. He had no symptoms other than a couple of swollen lymph nodes which turned out to be cancerous. It took a full body PET scan to find the small cancerous area on the right side of the base of his tongue.

We are working with a group of specialist that are working hard to get him on a treatment plan. They are looking at 7 weeks of radiation and next Wednesday we will learn what type/frequency of chemo will accompany the radiation.

Digesting all of the information at the almost daily doctor visits has been overwhelming.