 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I had SCC in the right tonsil and it was pretty advanced. My experience wasn't that much different from yours. At the midpoint of treatment the tumor (which was 6cm x 3cm) had completely dissapeared ("melted" as they called it). I didn't get excited about that and even 2 years later I still have a little nervousness. It seems to get better as time goes on. I am reading Lance Armstrongs new book "Every Second Counts" and he shares a lot of his feelings about life in the post Tx.
They always had "salvage surgery" as a option but it wasn't needed.
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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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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