 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | I should like to add to Brian's comments about the eyeball and finger as primary devices, my first cancer was a no-brainer -- A tumor started growing on the outside of my tongue.
However, the second cancer was different -- My tongue gradually started swelling very slowly and I finally went to see my ENT about it -- He did some feeling around on the front of my tongue and didn't like the density of what he was feeling, so he did the punch biopsy with came back positive for SCC (despite previous radiation and a year-old clean biopsy from the same area).
Get 'er cut and displayed in the microscope!
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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