 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Like others here, I'm not a doctor or medical professional, but I am a very experienced cancer patient... the thing is, the CT scan machine can't diagnose anything! All it can show is where any tissue abnormalities are but it cannot show any more than that. As others have said, the only definitive way to diagnose cancer is for a pathologist to look at cells under a microscope.
My pathology results took a week after my biopsy.
- Margaret
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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