 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I actually went to 2 different ENT's for diagnosis -1 before I had insurance and 1 after. The one before, took one quick look, told me I had a very advanced, life threatening cancer that I needed removed immediately. I proceeded to pass out until they got the smelling salts. I thought is was a peritonsillar abcess! I was already freaked about having it drained! The next week I had insurance and went to the HMO Head and Neck doc and he immediately took a biopsy and ordered an MRI. The following week he called me in to give me the biospy results (of course, I already knew). The second doc actually told me it could be a benign papilloma.
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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