 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Lisa,
That would be kind of unusual. Typically SCC in the lung is a distant metastesis from the primary, which was probably the BOT.
As you read most H&N cancers originate in the throat and metastesize to the other parts of the respiratory system and other organs, liver, brain, kidneys, as well.
Was she a smoker? She may have a different cancer in the lung. Do they have a positive biopsy for SCC?
Is she being Dx'd at a CCC? If not, I would find one pronto.
I am sorry to hear about this new development.
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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