"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 718 | Hi Tom,
Are you working with a cancer center where a Surgeon, Radiation Oncologist (RO) and Medical Oncologists (MO) are all involved in recommending your course of treatment?
My husband's private practice ENT wanted to do a major surgery 2 days after the diagnosis. Then he wanted us to find our own RO and MO for follow up work.
We decided to get a second opinion. We went to a cancer center that has a head and neck specialty and we got a much different recommendation after his case was reviewed by the Tumor Board which did include the surgeon, RO, MO along with some other specialists. Margaret ---------- C/G: Husband, 48 (at time of dx) Dx 5/18/07 SCC, BOT, lymph node involvement. T1N2BM0. (Stage 4a, G2/3) Tx 6/18 - 8/3/07, IMRT x 33 Cisplatin x3 (stopped after 1st dose due to hearing issues). Weekly Erbitux started 6/27/07 completed 8/6/07.
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