Jeff:

Which is why it is so important to get more than one opinion. My husband originally went to an ENT surgeon with our community hospital. I did not like his attitude from the start but he did send him for a biopsy. Well, they did not do a good biopsy (in my mind) and did not get tissue to evaluate. At the time we were involved with my daughter's illness and the lump on his neck went down. We figured it was some sort of cyst as all they got from the first biopsy was fluid. After a while, the lump came back on his neck. We then proceeded to see another ENT surgeon whom we liked much better than the first. Another biopsy was done & this is when they discovered it was SCC. This surgeon then did a radical neck dissection & removed something like 40 lymp nodes of which 2 were cancerous.

What I'm trying to get across here is that if one does not feel confident with a doctor, it is so important to get another opinion. My daughter had a very rare tumor and you wouldn't believe how many opinions we had to get in order to find someone to help her.

Linda K. (caregiver of Ken K.)