 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I am sorry that you find yourself in this dillema again. This is just my persomal opinion but T4, third recurrence and no radiation or chemo is suicide -what "options"?. Listen to the RO. 6 months from now it could well be palliative radiation that he's getting.
What surprises me is that they waited until the third recurrence to suggest radiation.
If you are not already at a CCC then I would find one immediately and get a second opinion.
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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