 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Minnie,
My heart just dropped a foot when I read the first half of your post. Hopefully he is wrong and the path report will be clean.
That said, why no surgery on radiated skin? If I can have a total laryngectony and neck dissection on 4 year out radiated skin, why can't they remove your nodes if they are cancerous? Also they are now doing neck dissections AFTER radiation so I'm confused. I got the same line from the vascular guy about my caraotid artery. Maybe another doctor at Johns Hopkins would do it. Actually, now that I think of it Marlene (MarLIz) also had the same surgery I did several years after radiation.
Here's hoping that the doc was wrong and the report comes back clean. Then you won't have to think about either surgery or chemo.
Take care,
Eileen
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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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