I will throw in what my ENT told me last year when I was diagnosed with Base of Tongue. I had been a smoker for 40 years but she told me that the stats show that 8% of all BOT cases involve folks who have never touched tobacco. I guess she was trying to make me feel a bit better as I was convinced that I did it to myself with no one to blame but me. Not even R.J. Reynolds.

Bill D.

Dx 4/27/06, SCC, BOT, Stage III/IV, Tx 5/25/06 through 7/12/06 - 33 IMRT and 4 chemo, radical right side neck dissection 9/20/06.