Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (in Nashville) and the University of Tennessee Cancer Institute (in Memphis) both have multidisciplinary head and neck cancer programs. If your biopsy does show cancer, centers like these will take a team approach to treatment, involving doctors from several specialities to come up with an individual treatment plan. If you are close to one of them, I'd start there if your biopsy comes back positive -- or even go to an ENT at the Vanderbilt or UT ear/nose/throat department for your biopsy.

I'll keep my fingers crossed....

All the best,
Leslie


Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.