Maybe you and Ronnie can sign up for group therapy. Be grateful you don't have cancer and move on. Maybe you are a hypochondriac also. Nothing to be ashamed of - it is a mental condition that can be cured. If I didn't have cancer and hung out here a lot I would probably be imagining things also.

Why so much paranoia? Do you chew tobacco, smoke heavy, do lots of drugs or are an alcoholic? Do you have HPV or engage in other high risk behaviours? (Now is the time to QUIT if you do -hint, hint!)

It took an ENT about less than 5 seconds for my Dx and that didn't even include the biopsy or a scope. Those things came later as proof positive.

Like others here I had missed Dx's also but that was BEFORE I went to the ENT (like when I saw the GP, a dentist and an oral surgeon).

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)