 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | When I finished my radiation treatments, my ENT told me that I had roughly a 60% five-year non-recurrence prediction. A year later, having had a clean CT/PET scan, he said the number was now in the 90's, but a year and a half after than I had a bad biopsy, meaning my number was now ZERO...
Now that I've had my free flap done and more cancer removed, I don't know what my new numbers are and I don't much care because they don't mean much.
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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