 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Most of us didn't have any pain.
My advice would be to get a referal to a head & neck surgeon or an ENT who deals with cancer patients and preferably at a Cancer Center or Comprehensive Cancer Center. If she goes to a cancer center she will get a medical team and a complete workup of scans, lab tests, biopsy, etc. Until they know where it is exactly and the staging there isn't much we can share with you right now.
Who diagnosed her with squamous cell carcinoma?
Missed and late diagnosis are, unfortunately, pretty common around here. I'm one of them.
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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