 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Is your inability to swallow related to these HUGE tonsils? Sounds like it would be to me. If I were you. I'd go with the opinion of the guy at Moffit rather than the local ENT who probably rarely sees cancer and rarely operates on adult tonsils. If there aren't cancerous, so what. I'd get rid of them before they cause more trouble.
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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