OP Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Good news!! Nothing on the CT scan and Doc Haakenslash said his alarm factor was very low after seeing and palpating, however, he did take a biopsy (Just reached in a snipped, not much pain) of the white one just to be sure -- The other was soft, so no problem -- He believes both lesions are from irritation because they are at the end of my lower teeth.
I have to say that I didn't expect bad news, but I was prepared to receive it!
Interesting side note -- I requested, as usual, a copy of the CT scan from the Radiology department -- They informed me that new policy was to charge $13.50, plus tax, and I had to go up to pay cashier and then come back. I did -- Good thing, because when I got to the Doc's office, the scan was not yet up on the network and we used my CD to look, so I got to hear the comments of two Doc's while looking at it and asking questions!
Second note -- This was my first scan at UWMC and they are using GE machines, producing about 500 slices -- Previous scans were with (older?) Siemens machines and they were only producing about 267 slices.
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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