 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Pearl,
I know that you must be totally freaked out about your cousins tumor.
My father had a skin cancer that had gotten very close to the eye socket. I believe it was SCC. He had a procedure called micro-mohs surgery where they surgically excised the tumor, froze it and made slices, stained and examined it for clear margins, then excised more as necessary until they finally got it all. It was a pretty good sized skin cancer that had grown into the bone of his skull - it required some bone shaving and 130 stitches with a skin graft. The procedure affords minimal tissue loss.
PS in the cyber world, people who use all caps are like having someone shout at you all the time.
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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