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#41880 09-30-2007 08:17 AM | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 12 Member | OP Member Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 12 | 11 mos out from original SCC -tongue surgery. Pet scan turns up new area of cancer (under tongue and possibly 1 node). Biopsy confirms base tongue but not node. RAD / Chemo being discussed. Understand their is a new treatment possibility. Somsthing to do with a seed implant in lieu of rad. Was discussed before surgery last year but not feasible in tongue. Anybody heard of this approach od floor of mouth etc??
65yo DX 10/14/06 SCC tongue StgII. 11/21/06 Partial Glossectomy & radical Neck dissection. TX continues 10/07 recurrence 3 mos rad supplemented by 3 Chemo sessions
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