 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Your doctor can take your results and transmit the data to MD Anderson and consult with someone there on your behalf. It can be done in a day's time. Look on their website and get the toll-free number. Call and tell them what you want to do and they will direct you. They connected with directly with the Head and Neck Cancer department. Good luck and I hope everything comes out negative. The needle biopsy is fairly reliable, provided they really get the area of concern. It is sometimes difficult to pinpoint and guide the needle.
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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