Hi All,

My biopsy's came back today and all three areas they biopsied were negative for cancer. Of course that made me feel very good......little irritated with my doc for telling more than I needed to know before the results....but I know he didn't mean anything by it. It was just such a horrible emotional roller coster ride the past few days, for me and everyone around me. He called me with the results himself and after he gave me that info. he told me he's still concerned with an area behind my swallowing passage that they couldn't reach to biopsy. I am having a harder time swallowing efficiently but I really believe it's because I lost so much mobility in my tongue. I have a tough time even getting my saliva to the back of my throat to swallow it, and when I do it's such a weak swallow that it most times just comes back up. He looked in my throat and didn't see anything. So, now he wants me to go and start chemo and, in his words, "if this is cancerous, it will shrink". Have any of you had this experience? I'm kind of surprised that a chemo doc would do chemo without a definitive biopsy???

It just keeps going on and on. My husband even pushed at me tonight to go for a second opinion, but I'm at Hopkins which is supposed to be so good. Any suggestions? I'm not against a second opinion, but dont' want to bump my docs nose out of shape either. I feel pretty good, I've gained weight, I just want to do something about this but I'm throughly confused now.

Any advice would be priceless to me right now.

Take care,
Minnie