| Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 | Eileen, For what it is worth, ask them is the risk of diagnostics worth the risk of what ever they think "it" is.
I, for one, prefer less holes in my body and instinctively pursue that lifestyle.
Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.
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